A former coworker of Robert Bonnie, the head of the Biden USDA transition team, says Bonnie will be able to bring people together.
“I think the thing that would characterize Robert is that he’s a bridge builder,” says Phil Karsting, former administrator of the USDA’s Foreign Ag Service in the Obama administration.
Robert Bonnie is former Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment and Karsting says, “He also, through is forest service and NRCS duties, brought to those tasks real world experience of having managed his own farmland and forest land.
