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24 Apr 2015, 8:58 am
April 23, 2015 — In a speech today at Michigan State University, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack laid out a comprehensive approach to partner with agricultural producers to address the threat of climate change. [read post]
23 Apr 2015, 8:57 am
<> USDA Announces Water Quality and Energy Efficiency Projects Across Rural America -, April 22, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack celebrated Earth Day by announcing support for projects to improve rural water and wastewater services, promote renewable energy, and promote the efficient use of energy resources through the Rural Development's Water and Environmental Program (WEP). … [read post]
22 Apr 2015, 10:01 pm
Department of Agriculture — have fallen by 10 percent, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who was appointed to head USDA when the president took office in 2009. [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 10:01 pm
Earlier this year, however, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said that the agency was still working to ensure mechanically tenderized beef labeling by 2016, despite missing the deadline. [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 9:30 pm
Over 100 non-governmental advocacy groups and academics have expressed their support for the sustainable diet recommendations in an open letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 10:00 am
Tom Vilsack, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture. [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 8:54 am
U.S. [read post]
24 Jan 2015, 11:00 pm
Tom Vilsack, now Secretary of Agriculture. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 10:01 pm
“Today, we are taking specific aim at making the poultry items that Americans most often purchase safer to eat,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 10:01 pm
The U.S. has filed an appeal of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) recent decision regarding country-of-origin labeling, but Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has said that there is no regulatory fix for COOL. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 10:01 pm
He also headed Wisconsin’s agriculture department under former WI Gov. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 10:02 pm
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sent a letter Tuesday to Secretaries Chuck Hagel, Tom Vilsack and Sylvia Burwell, co-chairs of the newly formed Interagency Task Force for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, to ask how this task force will address gaps in how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently addressing the public health threat posed by the overuse of antibiotics in food animals. [read post]
30 Nov 2014, 10:03 pm
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said that either Canada and Mexico need to be more clear on what will satisfy them or Congress needs to change the law “to comport with the WTO ruling to prevent whatever potential retaliation may occur. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 9:30 pm
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]
21 Nov 2014, 11:00 pm
Last weekend, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told the 2014 National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) convention that there is no regulatory fix for country-of-origin labeling (COOL). [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 6:12 pm
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]
20 Oct 2014, 1:54 pm
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) released a joint statement, along with their Senate colleague, Richard Durbin (D-IL), noting that they had written to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack WHAT ELSE. [read post]
20 Sep 2014, 10:01 pm
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]
31 Jul 2014, 10:12 pm
Department of Agriculture should rescind those laws and allow Congress to resolve the issue, said 112 members of Congress in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 10:02 pm
“Responding to a key concern raised by the courageous poultry workers who exposed the human cost of bringing chicken to our dinner plates, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Labor Tom Perez today took an important step to prioritize worker safety,” said NCLR CEO and President Janet Murguía. [read post]
