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WASHINGTON, May 10, 2022: Thank you, Madam Chair. I certainly appreciate the opportunity to be here this morning and I appreciate the attention of the committee members as well. Let me start with a very important and, I think, significant statistic about the ag appropriations process: non-Defense...

Chairman Oberman, Vice Chairman Shultz, and Members Fuchs, Primus, and Hedlund—the Department of Agriculture appreciates your holding this hearing. We are grateful for the opportunity to provide a perspective on the challenges the agricultural sector faces with respect to rail transportation. I’m Dr...

Chairman Oberman, Vice Chairman Shultz, and Members of the Board—the Department of Agriculture appreciates your holding this hearing and for the opportunity to provide a perspective on the challenges the agricultural sector faces with respect to rail transportation. I’m Dr. Jewel Bronaugh, Deputy...

To watch the recording, please view the Secretary Vilsack Highlights Biden-Harris Administration Work to Combat Climate Change video. JEFFERSON CITY, MO, February 7, 2022: Thank you, folks. Thank you. President Moseley, thank you very much for a kind introduction and a great history lesson about...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...