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US Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack Calls on Congress to Consider Ways to Grow the Number of Farmers in the US

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 9:11:06 CDT

US Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack Calls on Congress to Consider Ways to Grow the Number of Farmers in the US The Senate Ag Committee has kicked off a series of Farm Policy Hearings here in 2010- and their first witness was the US Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack. Vilsack called on the Committee to consider a fresh direction for the next farm bill, asking them to consider policy that will enable the US to rebuild farm population in the next few years. He also repeated his common call to do more to energize the rural economy, saying that we need to do all we can to increase income levels in rural America.


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US Secretary Tom Vilsack offers comments as the opening panelist before the Senate Ag Committee.
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