If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Kip Tom will be U.S. Representative to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture.

With Donald Trump's victory, rural America is enjoying some political prominence, and farmers are hoping to profit. But most rural Americans aren't farmers. Small towns have their own priorities.

Most of the Hoosier prospects to run the U.S. Department of Agriculture were on the Trump campaign's agricultural advisory team.