Jonathan H. Harsch Email & Phone Number

Tracking economic, energy, environmental and agricultural policy, production and trade issues. Research, consulting, speaking, writing and editing to provide research, analysis and strategic planning with focus on regulatory and legislative news. Articles and books published by The Christian Science Monitor, Agri-Pulse, AgriData News Service, World Bank, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rodale Press, Winrock International and by magazines including Profiles and The World and I; features placed with The New York Times and ABC Television. Contributing editor with Farm Futures magazine.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Covering the increasingly interconnected worlds of energy, agriculture, and the environment for the http://www.agri-pulse.com web site and Agri-Pulse's Energy-Pulse newsletter.

Yarmouth, Maine

Resources First Foundation and its Private Landowner Network create and maintain innovative, collaborative conservation programs to strengthen and sustain rural communities, economies, and green businesses. The aim is to connect farmers, ranchers, forest owners, and other private landowners to conservation through the development of unique web-based directories which provide comprehensive information services, program access, and contacts for organizations and professionals.

Provided daily coverage of agricultural, energy, economic, trade, and environmental policy issues from offices at USDA and on Capitol Hill.

Writer, editor and web site manager for several environmental organizations including . Previous work done for the New Uses Council and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Publications Editor for the New Uses Council, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization which promotes the development of new industrial uses of agricultural materials to provide economic, human health, and environmental benefits. Responsible for all aspects of managing membership, publishing the NUC’s EverGreen newsletter and Bioproducts Directory, and maintaining the NUC’s web site: http://newuses.org/.

Ran Washington, D.C. office for 24-hour national wire service, AgriData News Service, for AgriData’s weekly newspaper Agriculture, and for AgriData’s monthly magazine, Farm Futures. The daily “Harsch on Washington” column and its weekly and monthly versions linked production agriculture with Washington policy makers. Proudest moment: explaining USDA's complex new payment-limitation regulations to family farmers so that while the great bulk of payments still go to corporate megafarms, the small family farmers I worked with were able to qualify for the payments they were legally entitled to receive.

As a writer and editor, I covered major issues including the energy industry, politics, agriculture, higher education, the European Community, and Northern Ireland’s continuing “troubles.” Highlights included occasional reporting from Europe, providing regular coverage of agriculture for National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition,” and appearing opposite Senator Bob Dole on the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour.Houston Bureau Chief, 1981-1983Correspondent, Chicago News Bureau, 1980-81News Editor, Boston News Room, 1978-80