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Wheat Growers CEO Palmer stepping down

[/title][fusion_text]Tuesday, March 29th 2016

The National Association of Wheat Growers is looking for a new CEO. Jim Palmer, who’s held the post since 2013, has announced he is resigning at the end of May. In a release, Palmer said the time was right to step down. “I believe now is a great time for NAWG to have a CEO with different skill sets than mine,” Palmer said. He said he has “strongly recommended” the NAWG executive committee look for a replacement “with proven agriculture policy success as its top skill-set priority. “While financial and staff management acumen are certainly necessary in any CEO position, top-level agriculture policy development and advocacy experience is very much needed by NAWG as we enter into negotiations for the next farm bill,” Palmer said. Policy and advocacy experience “would complement perfectly our current excellent advocacy and technical support staff,” he said. Palmer will remain CEO until May 31, and a search for a new CEO will begin immediately. Palmer will be receiving the resumes, but will not serve on the search committee for his replacement.

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