NW Iowa farmer appointed state director of USDA Rural Development

21 Sep 2025


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President Trump has appointed a farmer and long-time state legislator from Rockwell City to serve as State Director for USDA Rural Development.

Mike Sexton, a fourth generation farmer, resigned from his seat in the Iowa House on Friday. Sexton and his wife raise grain-fed sheep on their Calhoun County Farm, without hormones or antibiotics, and sell lamb chops, ground lamb and other cuts of lamb from the Sexton Sheep Farm online store.

In 2013, Sexton received an entrepreneur of the year award from the Iowa Small Business Development Center for creating software for livestock operators, to keep track of nutrient loads from applying manure to farmland.

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