Vilsack touts targeted, efficient USDA spending during budget hearing

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack faced tough questions from the U-S Senate Appropriations Committee’s Agriculture Subcommittee on USDA’s Fiscal Year Twenty Thirteen proposed budget. The USDA’s Bob Ellison has more.

1. Workshop to discuss nutrient application, management, stewardship
2. Help for flood affected farmers
3. Ag markets diverged significantly Friday afternoon
4. Vilsack: Food, Farm and Jobs Bill critical for U.S. producers
5. Ag markets decidedly mixed on Friday morning
6. Dairy among best snacks for diabetics

1. Beware of the soy milk after-taste face
2. Monsters love milk, too
3. What sick day? Farmers take just three a year
4. Salma Hayek: Milk part of 'perfect' breakfast
5. Activists at the door
6. IDFA: Opposition to Dairy Supply Management mounts

1. Analysis: Dairy Security Act better for farmers, taxpayers
2. IDFA: Opposition to Dairy Supply Management mounts
3. World food supply depends on character, virtuous leadership
4. Commentary: Slanting the statistics
5. Buffet concerned about soil and starvation
6. Cold spring stunts upper Midwest hay crop