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Tom Vilsack is sworn in for his second stint as agriculture secretary, and the Agriculture Department provides new guidance on its review and planned implementation of additional coronavirus relief. 

In this opinion piece, Tom Martin with American Forest Foundation, calls on Secretary Vilsack to help scale forest carbon programs across the country.

The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture and has tapped Gloria Montaño Greene as deputy undersecretary for farm production and conservation.

Even as congressional Democrats push through a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package, attention is turning to legislation that could be use to fund agricultural climate initiatives: an infrastructure package that could be in the range of $3 trillion.

The nation’s food and agriculture groups are glad to have a familiar face back at the helm of the Department of Agriculture.

China is determined to grow more self-sufficient, but the country is also widely expected to remain a growing importer of meat and grains for years to come as the Chinese economy and demand grows, outstripping production capacity, according to economists and new government forecasts.

Legislation reintroduced Tuesday would give the Department of Agriculture legal certainty to adjust haying and grazing dates of cover crops.

The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture, and Brian Sikes has been named chief operating officer of Cargill.

The Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Vilsack as the nation’s Secretary of Agriculture, giving the former Iowa governor another term at the helm of USDA.