Agriculture Advisor Corner
EPA’s Agriculture Advisor's Office enables two-way communication between EPA and agriculture stakeholders about priority environmental issues.
Meet the Ag Advisor
ROD SNYDER, Senior Advisor for Agriculture to the EPA Administrator
Rod Snyder was appointed Senior Advisor for Agriculture to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in October 2021. He is recognized for his nearly two decades of leadership at the intersection of agricultural and environmental policy.
From 2014-2021, Snyder served as president of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, which is the largest multi-stakeholder initiative working to advance the sustainability of commodity crop farming in the United States. In this role, he forged science-based consensus among diverse stakeholders across the food and agriculture value chain on complex issues such as climate change, water quality, biodiversity, and pest management. In 2015, Snyder co-founded the Sustainable Agriculture Summit, which has grown to be the largest and most prominent annual sustainable agriculture conference in North America.
Prior to his time at Field to Market, Snyder held positions as Public Policy Director for the National Corn Growers Association and Government Affairs Leader for CropLife America. He has been a longtime champion of agricultural solutions to climate change and has on two occasions organized farmer delegations to participate in UN Climate Summits in Paris and Copenhagen.
Snyder holds a B.A. in Political Science from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He resides on his family farm in Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia.
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Ways to Engage with EPA
- Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
- This office serves as the primary liaison between rural and agricultural stakeholders and EPA. OARA maintains close contact with EPA’s program offices and regions to forge practical, science-based solutions that protect the environment while ensuring a vibrant and productive agricultural system.
- EPA’s Regional Agriculture Advisors
- Our office coordinates with each of our ten Regional Offices around the country on issues, activities, and outreach pertaining to agriculture. Each EPA Regional Office is responsible for programs for several states and territories and has its own Regional Agriculture Advisor.
- EPA’s Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Committee (FRRCC)
- A federal advisory committee which provides independent policy advice, information, and recommendations to the Administrator on a range of environmental issues and policies that are of importance to agriculture and rural communities.
- Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance’s National Agriculture Center
- Offers regulatory, non-regulatory, and compliance assistance information at epa.gov/agriculture
- Agriculture Newsroom
- Join the Ag Center's Agriculture News Service
- EPA’s Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC)
- A federal advisory committee which meets with EPA on a regular basis to discuss pesticide regulatory, policy, and program implementation issues.
- EPA Science Advisory Board - Agricultural Science Committee
- Provides advice to the chartered Science Advisory Board on matters that have been determined to have a significant direct impact on farming and agriculture-related industries.
- EPA’s Smart Sectors Program
- A partnership program that provides a platform to collaborate with regulated sectors (including agriculture) and develop sensible approaches that better protect the environment and public health.
- EPA's Animal Agriculture Discussion Group
- An informal group of representative stakeholders from the major animal agriculture sectors (pork, poultry, beef, dairy), U.S. Department of Agriculture, academia, and states.