Matt Russell is the new head of the USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Iowa. Russell grew up on a farm near Anita in western Iowa. He earned a degree at Loras College in Dubuque and attended seminary school in Chicago before teaching at a Catholic school. He earned a master’s degree in rural sociology at Iowa State University and spent a dozen years at the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University.
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