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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will travel to Kansas in April to speak at Kansas State University. The university said Monday the former two-term Iowa governor will deliver the spring Landon Lecture at 10:30 a.m. April 10 in McCain Auditorium Vil
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MANHATTAN, Kan. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will travel to Kansas in April to speak at Kansas State University. The university said Monday the former two-term Iowa governor will deliver the spring Landon Lecture at 10:30 a.m. April 10 in McCai
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will give the Landon Lecture at Kansas State University. The speech will be at 10:30 a.m. April 10 in McCain Auditorium. Vilsack, former two-term governor of Iowa, has focused on strengthening the American agricu
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TOPEKA | Gov. Sam Brownback and Kansas legislative leaders are regrouping after the proposed 2013 federal budget failed to include construction dollars for a new biosecurity lab, raising questions about the project's future. President Barack Obama's 2013
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WASHINGTON—To paraphrase English poet P.B. Shelley—If election season comes to the United States, can complaints about China be far behind? U.S. Trade Rep. Ron Kirk (L), U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson (C) and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vil
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MAXWELL / DES MOINES, Iowa - Maybe he just feels comfortable in the driver's seat, but Vice-President Xi Jinping surprised his hosts on Thursday when he suddenly climbed into the cab of a tractor on an Iowa farm. "I hope everything you plant this spring
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Top agriculture officials discussed ways to feed the world’s growing population during the first U.S.-China agriculture symposium held Feb. 16, with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping getting a chance to see how Iowa farmers are helping. Xi headed into Io
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Three years ago this week, on February 12, 2009, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack commemorated President Lincoln’s 200th birthday by creating the first USDA People’s Garden at the “People’s Department.” This People’s Garden at Department headquarters in
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LOS ANGELES/DES MOINES -- China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, gathered with U.S. agricultural officials in America's grainbelt on Thursday and stressed their shared interests in fostering increased food security and trade in farm goods. Extending his
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Xi arrived Friday at a trade conference where he'll be joined later by American counterpart Joe Biden. Schedul
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NOAKI SCHWARTZ and DAVID PITT, Associated Press | LOS ANGELES Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is wrapping up a four-day visit to the United States with events in Los Angeles. Xi arrived Friday at a trade conference where he'll be joined later by Ameri
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US First Lady Michelle Obama sits down to eat lunch in the cafeteria at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, January 25, 2012. Obama visited the school with celebrity chef Rachael Ray and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to highlight the
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LOS ANGELES -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is wrapping up a pivotal four-day visit to the United State with a daylong series of events in Los Angeles with his American counterpart Joe Biden. China's soon-to-be leader met with Gov. Jerry Brown on Th
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DES MOINES, the United States - Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping, who is on a five-day official visit to the United States, toured a family farm in the central state of Iowa on Thursday. Rick Kimberley, a 61-year-old soybean and corn farmer, and his fam
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that more than $307 million is being distributed to 41 states and Puerto Rico for public schools and roads and specific county programs. "The annual revenue sharing payments ar
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On Monday, the Obama administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2013. The budget would cut $32 billion in USDA spending over a decade. Direct payments would be eliminated under the proposal and crop insurance subsidies would be cut along
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The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee held the first farm bill hearing of the year this week, focusing on energy and rural development issues. The hearing included testimony from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack as well as rural de
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MAXWELL, IA. The prop
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Corn and livestock interests watched closely Thursday to see if Vice President Xi Jinping and the Chinese were about to bestow the same trade favors on them as they have on soybeans. Soybeans walked away from Xis visit to Iowa with a $4.3 billion commitm
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Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping talks with Rick Kimberley (right) while Xi visits Kimberley's family farm on Thursday in Maxwell, Iowa. Sun yuting / China News Service DES MOINES, Iowa - China and the United States should strengthen cooperation in trad
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Thomas James Vilsack (born December 12, 1950) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He served as the 40th Governor of the state of Iowa. He was first elected in 1998 and re-elected to a second four-year term in 2002. On November 30, 2006, he formally launched his candidacy for the... Full Article
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First lady Michelle Obama has lunch with school children at Parklawn elementary school in Alexandria, Va. , Wednesday, Jan. , 25, 2012. She was joined by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, right, and celebrity cook Rachael Ray, left.
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US Secretary of Commerce John Bryson (R) speaks as US Trade Representative Ron Kirk (C) and US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (L) attend a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan in the 22nd session of the China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) in Chengdu,...
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(From R to L) US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Commerce John Bryson and US ambassador to China Gary Locke leave after their meeting during the 22nd session of the China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) in...
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (R) listen during the African American Policy in Action Leadership Conference at the White House in Washington November 9, 2011.
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, speak during a news conference on Monday, Oct. 10, 2011, in Des Moines, Iowa. Vilsack is joining business and labor leaders in pushing for approval of President Obama's stimulus plan he says would add...
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US First Lady Michelle Obama speaks alongside Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack prior to eating lunch with school children in the cafeteria at Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, January 25, 2012. Obama visited the school with Ray and Vilsack to highlight the US...
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N.C. Secretary of Agriculture Steve Troxler, left, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, left center, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, right center, and N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue view flooded farmland on a helicopter tour of eastern North Carolina to view...
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BROOKLYN, MI - AUGUST 21: (L-R) RCR team owner Richard Childress greets U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) in the garage area prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway on August 21, 2011 in Brooklyn,...
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney (L), US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Deputy White House chief of Staff Nancy DeParle (R) get ice cream cones as US President Barack Obama visits DeWitt Dairy Treats in Dewitt, Iowa, August 16, 2011 during his three-day bus tour in the Midwest...
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US President Barack Obama (R) and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (L) get ice cream cones while visiting DeWitt Dairy Treats in Dewitt, Iowa, August 16, 2011 during his three-day bus tour in the Midwest centering on ways to grow the economy.
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (2nd L) speaks with US President Barack Obama (R) during a break out session for the rural economic forum at Northeast Iowa Community college in Peosta, Iowa, August 16, 2011, during his three-day bus tour in the Midwest centering on ways to grow the economy...
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, front vehicle, left, tours in a swamp buggy at the Winding Waters Natural Area in West Palm Beach, Fla. Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will use $100 million to acquire permanent easements from...
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, right, tours in a swamp buggy at the Winding Waters Natural Area in West Palm Beach, Fla. Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will use $100 million to acquire permanent easements from eligible...
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, left, gestures while responding to a question from the news media at the Winding Waters Natural Area in West Palm Beach, Fla. Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will use $100 million to acquire...
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, center left, signs commemorative documents regarding restoration of the Northern Everglades, with landowner A. J. Suarez, right, at the Winding Waters Natural Area in West Palm Beach, Fla. Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. Vilsack announced that the U.S....
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks to the International Association for Food Protection Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, in Milwaukee. Afterward, he told The Associated Press that the government hopes to find the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to ground turkey "very, very" soon.
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French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire, left, his U.S counterpart Tom Vilsack, center, and World Bank President Robert Zoellick during a press conference during the G20 Agriculture summit, in Paris, Thursday June 23, 2011. The largest economies in the world agreed Thursday to take a...
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US secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (C) shakes hands with Chinese Agriculture Minister Changfu Han as French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire looks on before a familly picture of the Group of 20 top nations Agriculture ministers, on June 23, 2011 in Paris.
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French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire, right, poses with his Chinese counterpart Changfu Han, left, and US counterpart Tom Vilsack, center, as part of the G20 farming meeting, in Paris, Thursday June 23, 2011. France is hosting a meeting for agriculture ministers from all Group of...
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French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire, second from left, poses with his US counterpart Tom Vilsack, left, Mexican counterpart Francisco Mayorga Castaneda, second from right, and his German counterpart Ilse Aigner, right, as part of the G20 farming meeting, in Paris, Thursday June...
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French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire, right, poses with his Chinese counterpart Changfu Han, left, and US counterpart Tom Vilsack, center, as part of the G20 farming meeting, in Paris, Thursday June 23, 2011. France hosts agriculture ministers from all Group of 20 (G20) nations,...
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack meets with local farmers and community leaders to discuss the recent flooding on the Missouri River, Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Glenwood, Iowa. The water level continues to rise and officials say that it should crest sometime later this week.
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks to media outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2011, about the first-ever White House Rural Council.
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First lady Michelle Obama has lunch with school children at Parklawn elementary school in Alexandria, Va. , Wednesday, Jan. , 25, 2012. She was joined by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, right, and celebrity cook Rachael Ray, left.
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