Stan Barrett
The American Seed Trade Association has hired Stan Barrett as the new director of membership and education services.

Barrett has worked for the U.S. Grains Council and the Snack Food Association, but most recently has been employed at the Industrial Research Institute, where he led member recruitment and retention programs and acted as the staff liaison to the U.S. Government Federal Laboratory member committee.

Barrett, who began his career in agriculture at the Agriculture Department’s Foreign Agricultural Service, holds a master’s degree in agricultural economics from Texas A&M University