Quarterly Advocacy Brief: Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance and Congress Update
Join us for an overview of the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance with Jonathan Cordone, Executive Director of the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance, a seasoned agriculture policy expert with more than 20 years of experience. You’ll learn about the role of AmericanHort in the alliance, key wins in this Congress, the House Farm Bill, and how the industry is engaging in Washington, DC.
Time permitting, the AmericanHort Advocacy & Government Affairs team will answer broader questions about Congress and the policymaking process in DC.
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Jonathan Cordone
Executive Director
Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance (SCFBA)
Jonathan Cordone is the Principal and Founder of Cordone Consulting LLC and the Executive Director of the Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance, a nationwide coalition of the fruit, vegetable, and horticulture industries in the United States. With more than twenty-years of policy experience, Jonathan served in the executive branch as the Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, USDA’s Principal Deputy General Counsel, and the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Jonathan also had the privilege of serving as senior staff in both houses of Congress, including as General Counsel to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and Chief Counsel to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry.