Articles by Spencer Chase

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says addressing the COVID-19 pandemic remains top of mind as he returns to USDA, but he also will be addressing climate policy, workforce issues and other matters in the early days of his tenure.

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. 

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

The nation’s soybean farmers have started sorting through projects that might receive checkoff funding.

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

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.

The Senate is finally set to vote today on sending Tom Vilsack back to USDA for a new stint as agriculture secretary, more than a month after Joe Biden became president.

The Environmental Protection Agency has flipped its official position in a critical court case for the future of waivers from the nation’s biofuel mandate, offering a signal of the Biden administration’s view on a major aspect of renewable fuels policy.

Former Sen. Bob Dole, who is 97, starts treatment on Monday for stage four lung cancer. “While I certainly have some hurdles ahead. I also know that I join millions of Americans who face significant health challenges of their own,” Dole said in a statement he posted Thursday.

Farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses across the U.S. are reeling from extremely cold temperatures and power outages.