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US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack to visit Plymouth

2013-08-15 11:45:34| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Vilsack is slated to meet on Thursday with students and faculty at the Northeast Regional School of Biotechnology and Agriscience in Plymouth.

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5 Questions: Vilsack likes Senate's direction on dairy, research, bio-economy

2013-07-21 08:15:16| Agriculture - Topix.net

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was in Greeley last week, applauding Leprino Foods for its innovation and food-safety efforts at its expanding cheese-processing plant, and also praising the company for the opportunities it's creating for the rest of the region's agriculture industry.

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Vilsack supports White House's plan for climate change

2013-06-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Gannett Washington Bureau: The White House stepped up its campaign for a sweeping new climate change plan Wednesday as Obama administration officials highlighted the effects of recent extreme weather on Iowa and other states. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters the 2012 drought, the worst to hit the United States since the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, and the wet weather and flooding this year demonstrated the need to act. He also pointed to the recent uptick in forest fires, including one near Colorado Springs,...

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Vilsack: New Farm Bill Urgently Needed

2013-06-21 18:06:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed("limelight_player_671834"); As the House of Representatives was rejecting a new farm bill on June 20, USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack was speaking in Lubbock, Texas, explaining why a new farm bill is needed for all Americans, and not just in rural areas. The farm bill "has something for everyone and its important to say that in order to be able to encourage, urban and suburban legislators to understand that this is a bill that impacts their constituents just as much as it impacts somebody on a farm or ranch," says Vilsack. read more

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Vilsack: Climate change will soon affect agriculture

2013-06-06 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Des Moines Register: U.S. farmers and ranchers must adapt or risk getting left behind as climate change becomes an increasingly influential part of the agricultural landscape, the head of the U.S. Agriculture Department said Wednesday. During a speech in Washington, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said better technological advancements through products such as seed so far have been enough to maintain production levels despite more intense storms, forest fires and an increase in invasive species. But Vilsack,...

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