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20 Nov 2011, 7:40 pm
Last week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted improvements to a host of USDA programs and processes, including to the risk assessments and rulemaking process, being made to help farmers, ranchers and businesses continue to drive America's productive agricultural economy. [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 8:55 am by Kenneth Odza
On December 15, 2009, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Thomas Gallagher, CEO of Innovation Center for U.S. [read post]
9 May 2014, 11:46 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack gave a speech in June, 2013 outlining the growing weather-related risks to farming, foresting and ranching. [read post]
17 Jul 2013, 9:46 pm by lpcprof
  After WaPo publicized magician Marty Hahne's problem, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack decided to review the agency's requirement that magicians have disaster plans--at least magicians who don't have operations the size of David Copperfield's. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 12:17 pm by Susan Schneider
Secretary of Agriculture on Tribal Relations and Bill Murphy, Administrator, USDA Risk Management Agency will open the conference on March 4, and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has been invited to deliver the Opening Keynote Address, America’s New Generation of Farmers.To learn more about the Forum, view the agenda, and to register please visit the Drake Agricultural Law Center website. [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 8:55 am by Kenneth Odza
On December 15, 2009, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Thomas Gallagher, CEO of Innovation Center for U.S. [read post]
31 Jul 2022, 5:00 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
They’ve reforested just six percent of land damaged by fires, pests and extreme weather events, which has created a backlog of about 4.1 million acres…“Forests are a powerful tool in the fight against climate change,” says Tom Vilsack, the U.S. agriculture secretary, in a statement announcing the initiative this week. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 12:59 pm
Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack expressed his support for the move today. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 9:12 am
Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, stated, "Seeing such continued strong growth in the number of U.S. farmers markets indicates that the regional food systems can provide great economic, social, and health benefits to communities across the country. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 8:54 am
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said that the purchase "will assist food banks and other federal food nutrition assistance programs" and "offer recipients a wide variety of healthy products. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 12:12 pm
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack requesting a public report on the costs and benefits of the proposed Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rule.This week during The Ag Minute, Chairman Frank Lucas discussed the importance of transparent economic analysis in federal rulemaking. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 7:51 am
US Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, announced a five year agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) "to develop aviation fuel from forest and crop residues and other "green' feedstocks in order to decrease dependence on foreign oil and stabilize aviation fuel costs" according to a USDA news release. [read post]
6 Nov 2011, 3:13 pm
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will also take part in the discussions to address key agricultural trade concerns.Vilsack stated that, "Thanks to the productivity of America's farmers, ranchers and producers, our trading partners in China recognize the United States as a reliable supplier of the highest-quality food and agricultural products. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 9:42 pm by Helena Bottemiller
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has echoed the administration’s memo and said many times that USDA would need to furlough meat inspectors. [read post]
29 Jan 2008, 1:14 pm
  The big reason was that Clinton really courted former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, naming him co-chair of her national campaign and promising to pay off his nearly half a million campaign debt. [read post]
28 Feb 2015, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack advance just such a technical solution to the political dispute over how food labels should treat the presence or absence of ingredients containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). [read post]
31 Oct 2009, 3:00 am
Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) routinely oversaw the operations.That's apparently what has Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack upset.Vilsack said the scenes in the Humane Society video are "deplorable" and "unequivocally unacceptable. [read post]
9 Apr 2010, 7:37 am
Dale Kildee (MI) and Tom Cole (OK), who co-chair the Native American Caucus, sent a letter on March 26, 2010 to Secretary Vilsack urging the secretary to settle the case on terms "comparable" to the settlement negotiated with the African-American farmers in the Pigford suit. [read post]
8 May 2010, 2:59 am
Almanza's appointment as administrator permanent.He's been the highest career service FSIS employee since taking a "limited term" appointment in 2007.Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on May 6 that he was making Almanza's appointment permanent. [read post]