U.S. Grains Council (USGC) board member Jennie Schmidt (second from left), a corn and soybean farmer in Maryland, was honored at a U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council (USAEDC) meeting in Baltimore this week in a session entitled "Fireside Chat: Year of the Woman Farmer." Schmidt shared the stage with (from L to R) Candice Bruce, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) International Year of the Woman Farmer; USDA Undersecretary Alexis Taylor; and USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Deputy Administrator Mark Slupek.
