A26-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 25, 1999
NCFC Strengthens Environmental Expertise
Through New Partnership With USDA-NRCS
WASHINGTON, D.C.
National Council of Fanner
Cooperatives (NCFC) president
David Graves announced that Pat
rick Wolf has joined NCFC’s Gov
ernment and Public Affairs Team
as a conservation liaison on detail
from the U.S. Department of Agri
culture’s Natural Resources Con
servation Service (USDA-NRCS).
“While Pat remains fully
employed by USDA, our members
will gain more value for their
investment in NCFC because of
this mutually beneficial agreement
between NCFC and USDA
NRCS, particularly as we work to
address important environmental
issues,” said Graves. “We are
pleased to have Pat join our team in
this very productive and effective
way.”
Wolf will be working with
NCFC and its member coopera
tives on a range of conservation-
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• Identification of water
quality-related concerns and
regulations.
• Implications for cooperatives
and their fanner members .
* Compliance assistance and
business-oriented remedies such
as nutrient management programs.
• Advancement of conservation
objectives by cooperatives and
their farmer members through vol
untary programs and initiatives.
“I am very excited about being a
part of NCFC’s talented team as
well as working with the Council’s
tremendous membership base,”
said Wolf. “Cooperative environ
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of NCFC’s overall program of
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advancing its agenda in this area.”
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maximize efforts to promote vol
untary conservation and steward
ship of natural resources on private
lands through the use of USDA
and other conservation programs.
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Wolf has been the state conser
vationist for NRCS in Ohio from
October 1996 to October 1999. He
also had served as deputy state
conservationist with NRCS in Des
Moines, lowa, and has held vari
ous NRCS technical positions in
Missouri, Washington, D.C., Mis
sissippi, Colorado, North Caroli
na, and Illinois during his 30-year
federal career. This included three
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Cochran (R-MS), David Kames
(R-NE), and Tom Harkin (D-IA).
Wolf was bom and raised on a
cash grain farm in Morrisonville,
111., and is still actively involved in
the family farm. He received his
bachelor's degree in agriculture
from Illinois State University.
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