The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the appointment of 40 members and five alternates to serve on the United Soybean Board. Forty-four members and alternate members will serve three-year terms and one member will serve a one-year term. The terms of board members appointed to three-year terms start December 2022 and end December 2025.

Newly appointed members are:

Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) administers eight USDA programs serving 88 million meals to students in 2,149 Washington State schools during the 2021 – 2022 school year. As a recipient of Local Food for Schools funding, we aim to increase the nutrition profile of school meals, decrease the production costs of school meals for schools participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), through the purchase of Washington grown, raised and harvested foods.