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5 Aug 2010, 2:59 am
The 2010 results are being released as part of National Farmers Market Week declared by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack between Aug. 1-7, 2010. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 9:22 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the USDA will be providing $9.8 million "in grants to repair rural housing and make energy efficiency improvements in 48 states and Puerto Rico. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 2:59 am
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday urging the U.S. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 12:00 am by Sebastian Rowland
First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week new standards for school lunches as part of a national effort to fight childhood obesity. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 7:02 am
Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack and Attorney General Eric Holder announced that a settlement agreement has been reached in Keepseagle v. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 3:09 pm
MANDE AS DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY FOR FOOD SAFETY WASHINGTON, July 9, 2009 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of Jerold R. [read post]
25 Sep 2009, 7:21 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced "a new initiative to improve water quality and the overall health of the Mississippi River Basin" through the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI). [read post]
11 May 2010, 2:59 am
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday announced new performance standards for the poultry industry to use in knocking down Salmonella and Campylobacter contamination levels.Vilsack said after two years under the new standards, the U.S. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 1:10 pm
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and other senators expressed support for the rule proposed by USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, according to Drovers. [read post]
25 Oct 2016, 10:00 pm by Dan Flynn
Johnston heard arguments for 55 minutes Tuesday from attorneys representing the activist legal fund R-CALF USA and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack about the Beef Checkoff program. [read post]
1 Sep 2010, 8:15 am
" Agriculture "is one of the only major sectors of the American economy with a trade surplus - expected to be $30.5 billion this year" according to a statement by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. [read post]
31 May 2022, 9:04 pm by Dan Flynn
The highly pathogenic avian flu is costing the United States so much that Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is kept on the ready to pour more money into the fight. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 6:12 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to finalize a rule to label mechanically tenderized beef products by the end of the year. [read post]
23 Feb 2021, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
Opinion Tom Vilsack is again the Secretary of Agriculture, having won U.S. [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, was quoted Monday in Food Chemical News saying that misuse of Ivermectin, a broad-based antiparasitic animal drug, is a "systematic problem" in Brazil.That in turn caused Wenonah Hauter with Food & Water Watch to fax a letter over to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack demanding Brazil be dropped from the list of countries eligible to export meat to the United States.Hauter also… [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 9:55 pm by News Desk
The committee provides recommendations to both Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius, who runs Health and Human Services (HHS), the department that oversees the U.S. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday.The People's Garden School Pilot Program will benefit an estimated 2,800 students attending schools in Washington, New York, Iowa and Arkansas and serve as a national model to encourage similar school gardens. [read post]
11 May 2010, 7:32 am
Yesterday, May 10, 2010, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the USDA was implementing "new performance standards" aimed at reducing two major culprits of food-borne illnesses, Salmonella and Campylobacter in chickens and turkeys. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) nutrition assistance programs. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 1:59 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled a progress report Wednesday, highlighting areas of the initiative they say are working. [read post]