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By a 92-7 vote Tuesday, the Senate confirmed former Iowa Governor and two term Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack to head the USDA yet again. There was really no debate Tuesday, but there was some bipartisan praise from Senate Ag chair Debbie Stabenow and ranking committee member John Boozman ...

COVID vaccine distribution, rural broadband, climate change, and racial equity were among the top issues House Ag leaders laid before USDA’s 97th Ag Outlook Forum last week. From his roots growing up on his grandfather’s farm, House Ag Chair David Scott described the plight of America’s black farmers through generations of discrimination and earlier slavery and are make up less than two percent o

Representatives Dan Newhouse and Glenn Thompson will be in Okanogan on March 31st for a roundtable and tour of the area.   Newhouse says it’s important for legislators to be up close and personal with what happened last year noting, “I can tell the story and I do as often as I can, but I think it’s very important to get people out on the ground, see firsthand for themselves. The old picture is wor