By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics
Former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg has been named executive director of the Farm Service Agency for Colorado by the Trump administration.
Sonnenberg served as a Logan County commissioner beginning in 2023. He resigned that seat on April 16.
He starts as executive director on May 5.
The Farm Services Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, administers farm commodity, disaster, and conservation programs for farmers and ranchers; and it makes and guarantees farm emergency, ownership, and operating loans through a network of state and county offices.