Regulatory Strategy
We help interpret proposed rules, agency actions, and enforcement shifts before they become business problems.
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Agriculture. Food. Fiber.
Federal regulatory strategy grounded in experience.
Three Tenths helps agricultural producers, operators, coalitions, and trade associations navigate the Federal policy landscape.
Expertise
Federal policy, made actionable.
Clear advice grounded in how Federal agencies actually work.
Legislative Intelligence
Valuable insight gained from time in the trenches.
Executive Advisory
Turn complex federal policy into clear choices for owners, boards, coalitions, and trade associations.
Areas of work
Policy and regulatory guidance where agriculture, food and fiber meet government.
Agriculture & markets
- USDA programs
- Agricultural marketing
- Milk marketing orders
- Specialty crop marketing orders
- Market News
- Competition policy
- Packers and Stockyards Act
- Federal Seed Act
- Market access
- Trade disputes
- Producer issues
Food & labeling
- Food labeling
- Country-of-origin labeling
- Bioengineered food disclosure
- Inspection and grading
- Emerging products
- Standards and claims
Hemp
- Federal hemp policy
- CBP and DEA matters
- State and Tribal Hemp Plans
- Testing and sampling
- Licensing and compliance
- Seed and genetics policy
- Fiber and grain markets
- Farm Bill provisions
Federal strategy
- Regulatory strategy
- Legislative analysis
- Rulemaking
- Appropriations
- Agency engagement
- Executive briefings
Why Three Tenths
A direct view of the federal process.
Federal policy experience
Guidance informed by decades of work on agricultural programs, regulation and legislation.
Technical policy fluency
Complex statutory and regulatory questions translated into clear business implications.
Senior-level attention
Direct, practical guidance tailored to each organization, issue and decision.
Bill Richmond is a government affairs and public policy strategist who founded Three Tenths Policy after 25 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where he led work on complex and high-profile policy issues at the intersection of legislation, regulation and new agricultural markets.
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Bill was the inaugural Chief of the USDA Hemp Program following passage of the 2018 Farm Bill. His teams drafted and implemented the Interim and Final rules formally regulating hemp in the U.S. and were responsible for outreach and education, all State and Tribal hemp programs, compliance, grower licensing, and cannabinoid testing. He also led legislative and regulatory affairs for the Agricultural Marketing Service, served as the Chief of Staff, and managed Country of Origin labeling, Bioengineered Food labeling, along with Federal marketing order programs.
