(Radio Iowa) President Trump has appointed a farmer and long-time state legislator from Rockwell City to serve as State Director for USDA Rural Development. Mike Sexton, a fourth generation farmer, resigned from his seat in the Iowa House on Friday. Sexton and his wife raise grain-fed sheep on their Calhoun County Farm, without hormones or antibiotics, and sell lamb chops, ground lamb and other cuts of lamb from the Sexton Sheep Farm online store. Sexton served one term in the Iowa Senate and was in the middle of his fifth term in the Iowa House. Sexton, who had been chairman of the Agriculture Committee in the Iowa House, will now be state director for a federal agency that has more than 50 financial assistance programs for rural development.