Mary Kay Thatcher

Most eyes are focused on the Farm Bill, or lack thereof, but that is not the only issue farm county needs to watch as 2024 draws to a close, and we start a new year.  Mary Kay Thatcher, Senior Manager Federal Government and Industry Relations for Syngenta, said taxes will be a topic of note early in 2025.   “...

After a quite 2022 policy wise, many in the farming community are prepared for a busy 12 months ahead.  Mary Kay Thatcher, Senior Manager Federal Government Industry Relations For Syngenta, says much of the past year in Washington D.C. was sp...

Mary Kay Thatcher of Syngenta, who was a long-time policy expert at the American Farm Bureau Federation, said last week, "we don't have very many democrats in the rural areas." Prior to last week’s election, only nine Democrats, held rural seats in the House. Tha ...

Syngenta announced this week that former American Farm Bureau Federation lobbyist Mary Kay Thatcher will join its government relations team.  Thatcher will join Syngenta in mid-February as senior lead of Federal Government Relations, based in Washington, D.C.   ...

Long-serving public policy specialist Mary Kay Thatcher will retire from the American Farm Bureau Federation at the end of the month.  In an email to AFBF staff, Dale Moore, the organization’s executive director for public policy, said: “It is tough to inform you that Mary Kay Thatcher has announced her retirement from AFBF.”  Her last day with ...

Is President Trump going to abandoned NAFTA?  That topic was addressed head on during the recent National Agriculture Bankers Conference in Milwaukee, WI.  The American Farm Bureau’s senior director of Congressional relations Mary Kay Thatcher said it really could go either way.   “You s...