Oregon’s Agriculture Department Director Alexis Taylor nominated by White House to serve in USDA

Oregon’s top agriculture official is leaving to return to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (Malheur Enterprise)

Alexis Taylor, Oregon’s Agriculture Department director, has been nominated by the Biden White House to serve in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

An announcement by the White House of nine nominees said Taylor had been appointed to serve as under secretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs in the department.

Since 2016, Taylor had led Oregon’s Agriculture Department, a…