Jim Bair

Jim Bair is president & CEO of the U.S. Apple Association – the national voice of America’s Favorite Fruit. The U.S. apple industry has a farm gate value of more than $4 billion, creating downstream economic activity exceeding $24 billion. USApple’s primary mission areas are government relations, media relations and crisis communications. Jim has dedicated more than 40 years to the management of food and agriculture organizations. Jim was raised on a farm that has been in the family since 1909. He graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in agronomy – the science of plant genetics and physiology, soil and weather.