Carrie Castille named Head of National Institute of Food and Agriculture
By Adam Daigle
The Acadiana Advocate
Carrie Castille has been named director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Trump administration.
Castille, a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and LSU, was assistant professor and agriculture and natural resource leader at LSU prior to serving as associate commissioner and senior adviser to the commissioner for the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. In 2017, she joined USDA as state director for Louisiana Rural Development, and in 2019 was named as the mid-south coordinator for USDA’s Farm Production and Conservation mission area.