The Kansas Department of Agriculture hired Josh Roe, 2003 graduate, as an assistant secretary to Jackie McClaskey, Secretary of Agriculture, in February.
Roe has served as the staff economist for KDA since 2013. Prior to that he worked in K-State’s Department of Agricultural Economics, where his research and extension activities included water quality and quantity, agricultural finance, farm management and biofuels.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from K-State with cum laude honors in agricultural economics with a specialty in finance and a minor in statistics. He has a master’s degree in agricultural economics from Iowa State University.
