Dr. J. Scott Angle, president and CEO of the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), Muscle Shoals, Ala., has been nominated for the position of director of USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Angle has been with IFDC since October 2015. A soil scientist and a former Fulbright scholar, he previously served as dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia.
Dr. Angle currently remains as president and CEO. An interim IFDC leader is expected to be named at a board meeting later this month, and a search committee will be formed.