Head of USDA Organic Program Stepping Down

The leader of the USDA’s National Organic Program will step down at the end of the month.  Miles McEvoy, a Washington Native, will vacate the position overseeing the program and return to the Evergreen state.  McEvoy led the program that oversees organic regulations and the USDA organic seal for eight years.

After eight years at USDA, he said the program is now stronger, offering better quality inspectors, certifiers and work.  He said the Trump administration and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue favor “increased enforcement and authority” for the program, and do not have any desire to weaken the program.

McEvoy added he has no plans yet for what he may do next, but says he is not retiring, rather “just stepping down from the government service.”

In 1988 McEvoy was the first organic inspector for the Washington State Department of Agriculture

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