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Members of and organizations affiliated with the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) received an Action Alert today urging them to tell USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to withdraw his agency's proposed rule on poultry slaughter inspection (77 Fed Reg 4408.) As written here previously and by the Center for Progressive Reform's Rena Steinzor in "The Age of Greed," the USDA proposal was develo...

Jill Biden jumped into an Iowa congressional race on Saturday, telling a crowd at a private fundraiser in Des Moines that it was about time the Hawkeye State was represented by a woman. The candidate in question has some major Democratic connections, though. Christie Vilsack, wife of Agriculture Secretary and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, is running against five-term Republican Steve King in th...

Release Time:  For Immediate Release Department of Interior Washington, D.C. 5:32 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you, everybody.  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you so much.  Everybody, have a seat.  Have a seat.  (Applause.)  Well, it is good to have all of you in here. Welcome to Washington.  I want to thank Ken Salazar f...

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Thursday that he would lead a trade mission to China at the end of March to strengthen business ties.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will visit Florida on Friday to discuss a United States Department of Agriculture pilot loan program that could help tens of thousands of rural homeowners in 19 states....

Tom Vilsack, the U.S. agriculture secretary and former Iowa governor, is a success story. There is a reason the Chinese vice president plans to visit Iowa on an upcoming trip to the United States.

The United States will join 20 other countries in a "research alliance" to better understand -- and prevent -- greenhouse-gas emissions from farms, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Wednesday.