The head of USDA’s Farm Service Agency says the Biden administration will have more emphasis on equity and serving marginalized communities.
Administrator Zach Ducheneaux comes to the post as the past executive director of the Intertribal Agriculture Council and member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota where his family raises livestock and horses.
He previously represented more than 80,000 ag producers, “To help them overcome the systemic barriers that have been put in front of them and around them, improve participation in USDA programs, and have better access to market—much like the role I’m going to try to do for everybody here at the Farm Service Agency,” he shares.
