The parlor game of who will take various posts in a potential Biden administration is in full swing in Washington with several names on the list of those who could head up USDA.
Obvious potentials including defeated lawmakers such as House Ag Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., who served on the Senate Ag committee from 2013 to 2019 and was reportedly considered by Trump to head USDA under his administration.
Other possibilities include former USDA officials Michael Scuse (now Delaware's Ag Secretary) and Krysta Harden (former deputy secretary and chief of staff to former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack). Others on the mounting chatter list include current Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, and Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford.
Other names are likely to surface in coming days and could well include a candidate not on anyone's list.