Secretary of Ag Karen Ross will join the line up of speakers at the September CPF Annual Conference. Secretary Ross will touch on the many ways the California poultry industry works with CDFA. She also will discuss the challenges and opportunities for CDFA this year and into next year. Karen Ross was appointed Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture on January 12, 2011, by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Secretary Ross has deep leadership experience in agricultural issues nationally, internationally, and here in California. Secretary Ross is passionate about fostering the reconnection of consumers to the land and the people who produce their food, and to improving the access of all California citizens to healthy, nutritious California-grown agricultural products, celebrated for their diversity and abundance in serving local, national and global markets. Read more

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