State Ag Officials Set 2018 Policy Priorities

Earlier this week, the National State Departments of Agriculture set top policy priorities for the year.  During the organization’s annual Winter Policy Conference in D.C, leaders of state agriculture departments called passing a unified farm bill, along with the successful modernization of NAFTA, top issues for 2018.  The group also calls implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act a priority for the year.

NASDA President and Connecticut Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Reviczky, said of the priorities, that “state departments of agriculture set the stage for good things to happen.”  NASDA members also want rural broadband expansion, meaningful investments in infrastructure and improvements to conservation programs for producers.

NASDA represents the elected and appointed commissioners, secretaries and directors of the departments of agriculture in all fifty states and four U.S. territories.

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