Presenters

Jim Moseley
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Office of the Secretary
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20250-1300
202-720-6158 phone
Jim.Moseley@usda.gov
As deputy secretary of agriculture, Jim Moseley oversees the day-to-day activities of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one of the largest and most diverse departments in the federal government. Mr. Moseley previously served at USDA as the assistant secretary of agriculture for natural resources and environment from 1990 to 1992. In this capacity, he provided leadership to the Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) on a variety of issues including policy issues related to the conservation title of the 1990 farm bill.
Mr. Moseley has played a key role in developing public policy for agriculture, the environment, and natural resource conservation at the state and national levels. From 1989 to 1990, he served as agricultural advisor to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Following the 1995 farm bill, Mr. Moseley served as a consultant to the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, where he worked with producers and NRCS to develop model resource management plans for farmers and ranchers
From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Moseley served as the director of agricultural services and regulations for the State of Indiana at Purdue University. He also served as a political analyst and member of the editorial board of the Farm Journal publications. Before his service in Washington, D.C., Mr. Moseley, was an Indiana farmer with 32 years of hands-on farm experience in grain and hog production.

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