NCFAP’s Board of Trustees
Board Chair: Stanley Johnson– Emeritus Professor, former Director of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD), and former Vice-Provost for Extension, Iowa State University.
Vice-Chair: Christopher Goldthwait – U.S. Ambassador to Chad, 1991-1999; Former General Sales Manager, USDA Foreign Agriculture Service.
TRUSTEES
Mary Ahearn – Council of Food, Agriculture, and Resource Economics (C-FARE); formerly Economic Research Service, USDA.
Harold Birch – Executive Vice President, Family Farms Group
Gale Buchanan — former USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics; former Dean and Director of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia.
Mark Drabenstott – Consultant; Former Director of the Center for Study of Rural America (Kansas City Fed).
Michael Harrington – Former Executive Director Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors.
Terry Hurley — Austin A. Dowell Professor of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota.
William H. Meyers – Emeritus Professor, University of Missouri.
Steven Pueppke — Professor of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences; Center for Global Change and Earth Observations and Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Michigan State University.
Denise Swink – CEO, Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (2007); Senior Advisor US Resilience Project