Dale Moore
The American Farm Bureau Federation today announced that Dale Moore will lead its public policy department and manage its lobbying staff.

Moore succeeds Mark Maslyn, who will retire from Farm Bureau on February 1 after 32 years of service to the organization, Farm Bureau Executive Vice President and Treasurer Julie Anna Potts announced.

Potts also said that Farm Bureau Chief Economist Bob Young will now also serve as deputy executive director of public policy, the position formerly held by Moore.

During the George W. Bush administration, Moore served as chief of staff to four Agriculture secretaries: Ann Veneman, Mike Johanns, Chuck Conner (acting) and Ed Schafer. He also provided transition assistance to President Barack Obama’s agricultural advisers.

Moore spent more than a dozen years on Capitol Hill, working in various positions for the House Agriculture Committee and in the personal office of Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., when Roberts served in the House.

Moore received a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Fort Hays State University in Kansas and grew up in southwest Kansas on a livestock, hay and grain farm.

Young, before being named Farm Bureau’s chief economist in 2003, was a co-director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute from 1991 through 2003. Young also served as an associate professor in agricultural economics at the University of Missouri.

Young was the chief economist of the Senate Agriculture Committee from 1987 through 1991, and has a doctoral degree in agricultural economics and bachelor and masters degrees in atmospheric sciences from the University of Missouri.