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14 Sep 2011, 2:59 am
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, however, says the added cost to USDA will be $500,000 to $750,000 annually, and will be covered by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) budget. [read post]
4 May 2020, 9:06 pm by News Desk
“Every American farmer takes pride in feeding our country and the world,” said former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 3:42 am by Russ Bensing
  In fact, the language is broad enough that the Secretary could ban them altogether, but SoA Tom Vilsack has said that he doesn’t intend to do so. [read post]
10 Oct 2015, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell went up to the hill to tell Congress that, when finishing up the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, their two departments will be sure to color only inside the lines. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 10:03 pm by Dan Flynn
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to “literally quiver in their boots. [read post]
12 May 2011, 2:59 am
More stress before slaughter makes animals more susceptible to being the source of foodborne illnesses and some say that is a problem particular to confined-animal operations and the industrial food chain.Food safety appears to be at least a secondary consideration for those concerned about consolidation in the agriculture and food industries.Following five workshops held last year to examine antitrust issues in agriculture, more than 160 of the participating organizations now want action.So… [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 9:30 pm by RegBlog
The Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, stated that the new approach “imposes stricter requirements on the poultry industry and places our trained inspectors where they can better ensure food is being processed safely. [read post]
20 Sep 2014, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
While Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack removed Parnell from that panel faster than you can say “Ray Rice,” the peanut industry found a place of employment for him after PCA was liquidated, and that continued up to and through the trial. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 2:59 am
  Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told USA Today: "People have a need to know and have a right to know if there is a problem with a particular problem. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 9:57 am by Eric Hoke, Paralegal
Department of Agriculture loan guarantees that will help build 100 wind turbines providing 151.5 megawatts of electricity.This USDA press release says the money will help Basin Electric Power Cooperative build the PrairieWinds wind farm energy project in central South Dakota that will join the cooperative’s other electric generation projects to meet the needs of 2.8 million customers served by 135 distribution systems in nine states:“The investment announced today will help us… [read post]
7 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
” In both of these states, Republicans have a trifecta.A number of events reinforce the apparent connection between local Republican control and restrictive approaches to voting:In Iowa in 2005, then Governor Tom Vilsack, a Democrat, issued an executive order that established a process to restore voting rights to people who had been convicted of a felony. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 1:24 pm by Cathy Siegner
On Wednesday, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack appointed five new members to the NOSB who will begin serving their five-year terms on Jan. 24, 2017. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 11:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
"USDA's partnership with the Department of Energy aims to improve our country's energy security and provide sustainable jobs in communities across the country," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. [read post]
31 Dec 2021, 9:50 am by Bona Law PC
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, a broad, bipartisan coalition of fifteen state attorneys general—from AG Keith Ellison in Minnesota to AG Sean Reyes of Utah—urged the USDA to use its powers under the Packers and Stockyard Act to counter rapidly increased concentration among meat processors, vertical integration, exclusive production arrangements, new sales and marketing practices, the emergence of third-party data services as key players in the market, and… [read post]
6 Feb 2021, 10:58 am by Bill Marler
Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, grilled Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack over the bone-headed move. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 1:00 pm
  I've already blogged before about Clinton and former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, so I won't repeat what I said except to say that I think so little of the association that it was a major motivating factor in leading me to change my support initially from Clinton to Obama. [read post]
27 Jan 2013, 9:34 pm by Helena Bottemiller
It appears that the agency has been implementing and refining these changes for several years,” wrote DeLauro, in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Friday. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 9:06 pm by Dan Flynn
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack urging him to immediately suspend all imports of beef from Brazil after the country failed to promptly report cases of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy earlier this summer. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 2:18 pm by Bill Marler
Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, grilled Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack over the bone-headed move. [read post]