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Remarks as Prepared for Secretary Tom Vilsack at the Cooperation on Advancing Mutual Goals in Food & Agriculture Session of the U.S.-China Joint Committee on Commerce and Trade Meeting in Chicago

I would like to thank the U.S.-China Business Council, Mead Johnson Nutrition, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade for allowing me to speak on such an important theme today. I also want to applaud you for focusing attention on the...

Agriculture Secretary Outlines Vision for Agricultural Solutions to Environmental Challenges in Speech to the National Press Club

Watch Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's remarks live at 12:50 pm ET at: http://press.org/events/npc-luncheon-tom-vilsack-secretary-us-department-agriculture Good afternoon, everyone. I want to thank the National Press Club for the opportunity to discuss a complex environmental challenge American...

Media Call on Wildland Fire Forecast, Federal Preparedness, and Available Assets

Speakers: Tom Vilsack, Secretary of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Sally Jewell, Secretary of U.S. Department of Interior, Ernest Mitchell, U.S. Fire Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Jeremy Sullens, Wildfire Analyst, Predictive Services, National Interagency Fire Center Monday...

REMARKS AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY

G-8 Open Data for Agriculture Conference Aims to Help Feed a Growing Population and Fulfill New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Commitment G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture Good Morning. Thank you for the kind introduction. I would like to welcome you to Washington...

Remarks of Secretary Tom Vilsack at the Maine Medical Center

Remarks as delivered by Secretary Vilsack Portland, Maine March 14, 2013 SECRETARY TOM VILSACK: Thank you. I want to thank everyone for being here today. Kevin and I had lunch yesterday and he was extraordinarily proud of Maine and Portland and what's being done here and I know he is disappointed...

Remarks by Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan at the National Farmers Union 111th Anniversary Convention, Springfield, Massachusetts

COMING HOME Welcome Welcome to Massachusetts, my home state. I grew up in Greenfield, about 40 miles north of here. Springfield was then, and still is, the big city. My family would come to Springfield twice a year to shop at Sears for our school clothes. Me and my brothers loved that because we got...

Keynote Address by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack at 2013 USDA Ag Outlook Conference

SECRETARY VILSACK: Thank you very much. I want to thank the Deputy for that kind introduction and for her leadership on a number of issues, including the local and regional food systems, which has become an integral part of not just this conference but of agriculture and the economic opportunity in...

Remarks of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to 94th Annual Meeting of the Farm Bureau Federation

January 14, 2013 Nashville, TN SEC VILSACK: Thank you. Bob, thanks very much. It's always a pleasure to have the Farm Bureau President announce that you're going to -- that you've got a job for the next couple of years. And I was talking to Bob before this and suggested that I remember a year ago we...