Ms. Katie McGaughey

USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

Katie McGaughey is a Crop Assessment Specialist at the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. FAS is responsible for market development, international trade agreements and the collection and analysis of market intelligence information. Katie’s analytical portfolio includes Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Moldova. She works to inform the U.S. government, American farmers, and the agricultural industry of international crop conditions and agricultural production statistics using geospatial and remote sensing technology. Her group also monitors hot spots of food insecurity and disasters that impact agriculture globally.