Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee (FRRCC) Membership List

Barry Berg

Watershed Coordinator

East Dakota Water Development District

Brookings, South Dakota

William Thomas (Tom) McDonald 

Senior Vice President - Environmental Affairs and  Sustainability

Five Rivers Cattle Feeding, LLC

Dalhart, Texas

Brad Bray

Chief Operating Officer

Bray Farms, LLC

Cameron, Missouri

Christopher L. Pettit

Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Manager

Office of Drinking Water

Washington State Department of Health

Kent, Washington

Emily M. Broad Leib

Clinical Professor of Law

Faculty Director, Food Law and Policy Clinic

Harvard Law School

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Clay Pope

Founding Partner

CSP, LLC

Loyal, Oklahoma

Don Brown

CEO

Anchor Three Farm, Inc.

Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture 2015-2019

Yuma, Colorado

William R. Pracht

President/CEO

Pracht Farms

East Kansas Agri-Energy

Garnett, Kansas

Phillip H. Chavez

Director

Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District, Catlin Canal Company, and Lower Arkansas Valley Super Ditch

Partner

Diamond A Farms and Mohawk Valley Farms

Rocky Ford, Colorado

James Pritchett, Ph. D. 

Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences

Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station

Colorado State University

Fort Collins, Colorado

William (Bill) Couser

President/Owner

Couser Cattle Company

Nevada, Iowa

Nithya Rajan, Ph. D.

Associate Professor of Crop Physiology and Agroecology

Texas A&M University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences

College Station, Texas

Eddie Crandell, Sr.

Lake County California Supervisor

Lucerne, California

Graciela I. Ramírez-Toro, Ph.D.

Institutional Director

Center for Environmental Education, Conservation and Research

Inter American University of Puerto Rico

San Germán, Puerto Rico

Matthew Freund

Owner

Freund's Farm and CowPots LLC

East Canaan, Connecticut

Lindsay Reames

Executive Vice President Sustainability and External Relations

VA/MD Milk Producers Cooperative Association

Amelia, Virginia

Sharon Furches

Co-owner

Furches Farms Partnership

Second Vice President

Kentucky Farm Bureau

Louisville, Kentucky

Charles R. Santerre, Ph.D.

Department Chair & Professor

Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina

Jeffrey Gore, Ph.D.

Research Entomologist

Delta Research and Extension Center

Mississippi State University

Stoneville, Mississippi

Jennifer Simmelink

Coordinator

KS Soil Health Alliance

Esbon, Kansas

David Graybill

Owner

Red Sunset Farm

Executive Committee, State Board of Directors

Pennsylvania Farm Bureau

Mifflintown, Pennsylvania

Chantel Simpson, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor of Agriscience Education

North Carolina A&T State University

Greensboro, North Carolina

Jennifer James

Owner

H&J Land Company

Newport, Arkansas

Ryan Smith

Senior Manager, Regenerative Agriculture

Danone North America

Chicago, Illinois

Sarah Lucas

Deputy Director, Office of Rural Development

Michigan Dept. of Agriculture and Rural Development

Marquette, Michigan

Stacy Wayne Smith

Owner

S & A Smith Farms

New Home, Texas

Raymon Shange, Ph. D. 

1890 Extension Administrator

Associate Dean, College of Agriculture, Environment, and Nutrition Sciences

Tuskegee University

Jeff M. Witte

Secretary of Agriculture

State of New Mexico

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Nicholas McCarthy

Senior Vice President of Agronomy

Central Valley Ag Cooperative

York, Nebraska