Arthur Keyes has been appointed by the US Department of Agriculture to serve as Alaska’s executive director of the Farm Service Agency.
Keyes, owner of Glacier Valley Farm in Palmer, has years of Alaska agricultural experience, including serving as the director of the Alaska Division of Agriculture from 2016 to 2019.
Keyes was a produce manager for the Carrs supermarket chain until 2002, when he began working as a full-time farmer.
The Farm Service Agency serves a number of programs, including loans, price support, and commodity programs to stabilize farm income and promote agricultural productivity. The work includes direct and guaranteed loans for farm ownership, operations and emergency loans and disaster relief programs to help farmers recover from natural disasters or economic losses.
Ridiculous waste of resources.
What are you talking about David food. ?.? We have a terrible food shortage problem and you’re blasting anti ag propaganda.
It’s a conduit for free federal money. People can’t grow food and survive without Federal dollars? Welcome to more government bureaucracy. Did you read the last paragraph? Socialism. More federal fiat currency and tax payer money for a select few. More of the same.
Just what we need, to be more like DC. Let’s put a farmer in charge of regulating agriculture like the pharmaceutical industry has been in control of the FDA for decades. How’s that working out?
South Africa doesn’t want to support its farmers either… if they get their way, starvation will be in their future.
Ag in Alaska is a marginal industry due to our climate and can use all the help it can get. Only a farmer truly understands the nature of the agriculture business. For too long farmers are regulated under agencies headed by people who have never planted a crop or raised a single chicken. Comparing agriculture to the pharmaceutical industry is absurd