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Tom Vilsack’s next job will bring him home to Iowa. The former governor, stepping down after serving as secretary of agriculture in the Biden administration, will become the Des Moines-based World ...

The full Senate easily confirmed the nomination of Tom Vilsack to serve as secretary of agriculture and lead the USDA under the Biden administration. The bipartisan vote of 92-7 reflected a similar ...

Adding another former rival to his administration, Barack Obama has nominated former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack to be the next secretary of agriculture. Vilsack was not an ideal choice for advocates of ...

During an antitrust conference hosted by the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted the need for more efforts to promote competitive markets in the ...

The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association is calling for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to resign in the wake of a fiasco that saw USDA employee Shirley Sherrod fired unnecessarily late ...

His campaign for President was brief, but Tom Vilsack is one of longest serving Secretaries of Agriculture in U.S. history. He held the post for the 8-year Obama Administration, and he’s close to ...

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz have expressed confidence that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will issue an emergency waiver to allow E15 to remain available this ...

BOONE, Iowa — Announcing progress within USDA and the agricultural industry as a whole was the first main focus of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s speech during the Farm Progress Show in Boone, ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack appears before the Senate Agriculture Committee Feb. 28, 2024 (Photo: Steve Davies) Farmers who have experienced discrimination from USDA in farm lending programs ...

Former Iowa Governor and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visited Le Mars as one of his stops on the "One of a Kind ...

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee will hold an oversight hearing tomorrow on the U.S.D.A. at which U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is scheduled to testify. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says one key ...