Articles Tagged with ''Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack''

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is headed to Germany next month for meetings with the other G7 agriculture ministers.

World leaders are struggling to address the spikes in commodity prices that are taking a bite out of global economic growth and likely to increase food insecurity.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says he tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing some mild symptoms.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is releasing a report today focusing on potential mitigation measures.

A prominent African leader says the food crisis in Africa this year because of the war in Ukraine “might be even worse” than the price spikes in 2008

Citing the crisis in Ukraine, the American Farm Bureau Federation and several food and feed processing groups appealed to the Biden administration to let farmers plant crops on prime farmland that’s idled under the Conservation Reserve Program.

The U.S. Agency for International Development and State Department are dispatching $54 million in food, water, hygiene supplies, blankets and other emergency goods to Ukrainians trying to survive the invasion of Russian troops.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is in Jefferson City, Mo., today to announce that USDA is ready to start taking applications for demonstration projects to help the department develop “climate-smart” products.

The fate of a key cattle market reform proposal is at stake as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association kicks off its annual convention today in Houston.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and President Biden’s ports envoy, John Porcari, will be discussing the ongoing supply chain crunch at a webinar Monday sponsored by Agri-Pulse.