Items Tagged with 'Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack'

The incoming Trump Administration could be consequential for determining the fate of a slate of Biden Administration agricultural competition policies, including its efforts to update rules under the Packers and Stockyards Act.

In this opinion piece, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stresses that biosecurity is the key to limiting the spread of H5N1 and says USDA is developing a program to compensate producers with infected dairy herds.

House Republicans are proposing more modest cuts to spending at USDA than GOP appropriators tried last year, but they also are attempting to block USDA's new regulations for the meat and poultry industry and slow down new food traceability requirements.