San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau

Brent Burchett serves as Executive Director of the San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau. Prior to moving to California in 2019, Burchett served at the Kentucky Department of Agriculture as Director of Plant Marketing, where he oversaw organic certification, produce safety, specialty crops, and Kentucky's nationally-renown industrial hemp program. Other work experience includes political campaign management, agriculture industry advocacy, and public service in local, state, and federal levels of government. 

 

Brent is a graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the Martin School for Public Policy and Administration. He grew up working on his family's grain and tobacco farm near the western Kentucky town of Murray. Brent and his wife Kiah Twisselman Burchett reside in San Luis Obispo,