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Wisconsin names new Farm Center director

Wisconsin’s Agriculture and Farm Center has a new director.  The Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection hired Jayne Krull to lead the bureau.

Krull will oversee the state’s program specialists who help farmers with business and financial planning, transition and succession planning, production concerns, starting or exiting farming, conflict resolution, and counseling services. Krull also will oversee the Something Special from Wisconsin, Alice in Dairyland and Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin programs, agricultural marketing boards, and the cultivated ginseng program.

The Lake Mills native spent the past 17 years with GEA Farm Technologies, formerly WestfaliaSurge as a marketing and product manager, and most recently, she was GEA’s global service product manager for the dairy farming division.

Prior to working at GEA, Krull was a senior agricultural marketing consultant with DATCP’s International Agribusiness Center.  Krull is also a past Alice in Dairyland finalist and has served on the Alice in Dairyland selection panel.