For Immediate Release April 3, 2008
Contact: Arlene Kovash, VP Communications, 503-838-3512
AAW member Doris Mold is chair of USDA Advisory Committee
Past Vice -President of Education for American Agri-Women (AAW) and past president of Minnesota Agri-Women Doris Mold, was elected to serve as the chair of the USDA Advisory Committee for Agricultural Statistics for the coming year. She had just started her second two year term on this committee which provides advice to the Secretary of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) on the scope, content and timing of surveys and the five-year census of agriculture. The 25 committee members represent a broad range of agricultural disciplines and interests including producers, organization and business representatives, academics and researchers in statistics and economics.
Mold is somewhat unique to the committee in that she is a producer who provides information to the USDA and uses the data not only for their farm and understanding where they fit in the whole scheme of things, but also uses it in her other agricultural work as well. She, along with her husband Andrew, are the owner/operators of an intensively managed rotational grazing 70-cow dairy farm. She is also an agricultural economist who utilizes the data disseminated by the USDA in teaching, research, and consulting work that she does. Additionally, some of the data and information provided by the USDA Agricultural Statistics has been used in organizational work with AAW.
Mold is currently the Networking Chair for AAW, and serves as the advisor of the University of Minnesota Collegiate Agri-Women. She also has worked with a wide range of other agricultural organizations on a local, state and national basis.
Doris and Andrew live with their daughter Sarah live on a farm in Wisconsin.
Other American Agri-Women members on national committees are Alice Dettwyler, Oregon Women for Agriculture member from Salem, Oregon, on the Agricultural Trade Advisory Committee on Fruits and Vegetables; Illinois Agri-Women member Trenna Grabowski from Dubois, Illinois, who is on the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Agricultural Advisory Committee; and California Women for Agriculture member Karri Hammerstrom who was recently appointed to the Farm, Ranches and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee.
For more information, contact Marcie Williams, President,
president@americanagriwomen.org, or visit the web site at
http://www.americanagriwomen.org. American Agri-Women is the nation’s largest coalition of farm, ranch and agribusiness women, with 50 state, commodity, agribusiness affiliate organizations and collegiate chapters throughout the country. AAW is a volunteer organization, working to provide true information about agriculture to the public since 1974.
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