The more than 70,000 classrooms and homes participating in the Dairy Excellence Foundationâs Adopt A Cow program for the 2020-21 school year will be invited to join virtual live chats to culminate their year-long experience. The Dairy Excellence Foundation and program partners, including seven regional Dairy Checkoff-funded associations across the US, will host the live chats with the 22 dairy farm families who graciously shared their calves with the classrooms this past year. Anyone who is interested in experiencing the Adopt A Cow program in action can join one or more of the live chats, which will be on the Foundationâs YouTube Channel throughout April and May.
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President-elect Biden announced that Tom Vilsack, former secretary of ag under President Obama, âBiotech Governor of the Yearâ from Iowa and Dairy Checkoff funded millionaire will be his choice for United States Secretary of Agriculture.
Here at Missouri Rural Crisis Center, we have a 35-plus year history of fighting for independent family farms, resilient rural communities, and a food supply that is diverse, democratic and fair. Unfortunately, Tom Vilsack would be one of our last choices for Secretary of Agriculture, and we say that because of history.
A brief history of Vilsack:
⢠In 2001, as governor of Iowa, Vilsack was named âBiotech Governor of the Year.â Through biotechnology and lack of enforcement of anti-trust laws, the seed and chemical industries have become highly concentrated and now are largely owned by foreign multi-national corporations.
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