Chief resigns at FFA: Less than four months after announcing an ambitious plan to increase diversity in the National FFA Organization, chief executive Mark Poeschl resigned, saying, “I know there have been challenges we have faced during my tenure.” (National FFA)
Pathway to citizenship: President-elect Biden will ask Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants who are in the United States without legal status. (Los Angeles Times)
China remains unpredictable: “China remains a difficult and unpredictable market for U.S. agricultural exporters, largely because of inconsistent enforcement of regulations and selection intervention in the market by China’s regulatory authorities,” said the U.S. trade representative’s office in a report on China’s compliance with WTO rules. (USTR)
Gun-toting ‘tenacious unicorns’: On the flanks of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in south-central Colorado, Penny Logue and Bonnie Nelson created the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, “a community of gun-loving, transgender, anti-fascist alpaca ranchers.” (High Country News)
Biggest U.S. farmland owner: Tech billionaire Bill Gates is the largest single owner of farmland in the United States, with 242,000 acres, according to work by The Land Report. (Forbes)