Doris Mold, First Vice-President for Resolutions and Vital Issues for American Agri-Women, was recently appointed to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Agricultural Advisory Committee.

Mold owns and operates a dairy farm in Wisconsin and an agricultural consulting business. She also teaches farm and agri-business management courses at the University of Minnesota. Mold has served on numerous agricultural committees on the local, state and national level.

AAW is the nation’s largest coalition of farm, ranch and agribusiness women representing more than 50 state, commodity and agribusiness affiliates. The organization is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

The Agricultural Advisory Committee was created in 1985 to advise the Commission on issues involving the trading of agricultural commodity futures and options and facilitate communications between the CFTC, the agricultural community and agriculture-related organizations.

CFTC Chairman Tim Massad sponsors the Agricultural Advisory Committee. Members include representatives of national farm organizations, major commodity groups, agribusiness concerns and agricultural bankers. Mold will serve a four-year term.

“I am pleased to represent American Agri-Women — and women in agriculture — and provide our perspective to the CFTC Agricultural Advisory Committee. It is important that those of us directly impacted by agricultural commodity futures and options markets have a voice in providing advice to the Commission,” says Mold.