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National Organic Board Announces New Members for 2021
USAgNet - 09/30/2020
The USDA announced the appointment of five new members to the National Organic Standards Board. The NOSB is made up of 15 volunteer members representing the organic community. New members announced today will serve five-year terms beginning in January 2021.
Board members include:
** Amy Bruch is a sixth-generation farmer and president of Cyclone Farms, an organic family farm in Nebraska. She has nearly 20 years of experience in agriculture, including agricultural business management, regulatory compliance, operational improvements,
and transitioning farms to new crops and to organic production.
** Logan Petrey is a fourth-generation farmer from South Georgia. She is the southeast organic ranch manager of 2,000 acres for Grimmway Farms locations in Georgia and Florida and has grown over thirty different organic crops. Prior to Grimmway, she
worked as an agronomist and organic farm manager with Generation Farms; and as a field technician for Robinson Fresh where she worked with farms along the East Coast and Midwest.
** Dr. Carolyn Dimitri is an applied economist and is currently a member of the faculty at New York University. She has extensive experience with the USDA, working for more than a decade at the Economic Research Service where she authored numerous
reports on many aspects of the organic sector, including consumer expectations and attitudes about organic food.
** Brian Caldwell has been involved in organic agriculture for more than 40 years as an educator, researcher, and farmer. In 1983, he served as a founding member of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) and has remained
active in the organization serving as staff from 2002-2005, an educator at winter conferences, and a member.
** Kyla Smith is the Certification Director for Pennsylvania Certified Organic (PCO), a USDA-accredited certifying agent. In this position, she assures that PCO and its mission, programs and services are consistently presented with transparency and integrity to
relevant stakeholders in adherence with PCO's strategic plan, as well as oversees the certification, inspection and material teams. During her 17-year tenure with PCO, she has also worked as an organic inspector, materials specialist, and reviewer; and held
leadership positions for six years as the chair and vice chair of the Accredited Certifiers Association Board of Directors.
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