Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday opened the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate Summit in Washington, welcoming hundreds of attendees, including many from other countries, to an event set up to increase and accelerate investment.
More than 1,000 anti-hunger advocates are planning to lobby on Capitol Hill Tuesday to urge members of Congress to pass a clean debt ceiling bill without any increased work requirements on nutrition program beneficiaries and.
At a Senate agriculture subcommittee hearing on producer perspectives on the farm bill safety net Tuesday, Zippy Duvall, president of the Republican-leaning American Farm Bureau Federation, and Rob Larew, president of the Democratic-leaning National Farmers.
At a Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack repeated recent statements that federal pay scales are not competitive with the private sector. Vilsack noted that the Farm Service Agency has a.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Thursday that the Agriculture Department deserves more money rather than the across-the-board cuts that some Republicans have proposed. Vilsack urged the subcommittee to look at.