Bange retires after 20 years as USDA world-board chairman

Jerry Bange, overseer of USDA’s monthly supply/demand report, will retire on May 31 after 20 years as chairman of the World Agricultural Outlook Board, USDA announced. Bange has worked at the Agriculture Department for 43 years, starting in 1971, before he got his doctorate from the University of Maryland. The supply/demand report is issued at the same… » Read More

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