Lloyd Day leaving?

One Washington source indicated to me Tuesday that Lloyd Day, Administrator of the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, will be leaving USDA within the next few weeks, and that Dave Shipman is slated to serve as acting Administrator. Not sure where Day is headed, but the source indicated he may have landed a job in the biotech industry, No announcement from USDA as of yet, Jimmie Turner of AMS told me in an email yesterday..

We are coming into the season where political appointees will be leaving their posts in advance of the new Administration, so there will be much speculation - most of it wrong, no doubt - about new appointees at USDA, from the Secretary position to the undersecretary to administrators and so on.

It could be a tough job environment for outgoing political appointees,particularly if the Dems win the White House and both houses of Congress.

Developing....