Kent Swisher, president and CEO of the North American Renderers Association (NARA), has been selected to serve on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee (APAC), as announced in a press release issued by USDA on Aug. 24.
Swisher, who previously held a position on the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Animals and Animal Products (ATAC), joins 130 other new private-sector representatives from the diverse U.S. agriculture community, announced by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas Vilsack, and U.S. Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, appointed to serve on seven agricultural trade advisory committees.