Sentences with phrase «agriculture secretary»

As U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said, «For forest ownership and stewardship to remain viable, it must remain economically rewarding as well for landowners.

Biofuels proponents including U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has criticized the use of RFS exemptions as «demand destruction» for corn - based ethanol.

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad appeared with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in Des Moines, Iowa, at a press conference and said consumer activists were conducting a «smear campaign» against meat producers.

«Organic food is one of the fasting growing segments of American agriculture,» said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

The letter was addressed to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

«If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it,» US agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters last week.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, on national food waste reduction goals as announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and EPA:

The same notification provision, Bentley notes, was included in a January 2009 memo from Tom Vilsack after he was confirmed as agriculture secretary under former President Barack Obama.

«Indeed, CURE provides an integrated platform to help the poor farmers in unfavorable rice areas in Asia by creating, validating, disseminating, and adopting new rice technologies for adverse environments,» said Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will have lunch today with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, and then participate in a signing ceremony for Space Policy Directive — 1.

Key endorsements: former Vice President Joe Biden, former Attorney General Eric Holder, former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

In a text message, IRRI Deputy Director General for Communications and Programs Dr. Bruce Tolentino echoed a statement from Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala that the research should be completed.

The committee, chaired by forester Norm K. Johnson of Oregon State University in Corvallis, was convoked by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman in December 1997 to provide new guidelines for the Forest Service, a federal agency that has been at the center of a heated debate for decades.

Perhaps in response to the findings in the Times report, last week Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced tougher new standards for the ground beef that will be used in the National School Lunch Program, among other federal food programs.

«If you put me and my neighbors out of business — not you personally, but the administration — we've got a major problem here,» Tester told Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue earlier this month.

State Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross set to join Wine Industry Leaders at Vineyard Economics Seminar

While in the Philippines, she was also welcomed by Philippine Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala and Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) Director Eufemio Rasco, Jr..

Yesterday, newly appointed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue traveled to an elementary school in Virginia to announce an «easing» of the Obama - era school food nutrition standards pertaining to whole grains, sodium and flavored milk.

And our Big Government - hating new Agriculture Secretary is currently attempting to return deep fat fryers to our schools, an effort which scored big points for him on Fox News but might be a tad less beneficial for the 36 % of kids in my state who are already overweight or obese.

Authors include Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, as well as authors from the AMS Dairy Program.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue as Tonny Perdue.

Newly minted Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue unveiled a new interim rule on Monday to suspend sodium reduction requirements and whole - grain requirements as well as allow 1 percent fat flavored milk back into school cafeterias nationwide.

The focus of her search in the final days also centers on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, according to several Democrats close to the process, confident either Kaine or Vilsack would fit her chief criteria of being a strong governing partner and ready for the presidency.

Republican Sheila Harsdorf represented the district in the state Senate for 16 years, defeating her last two Democratic challengers by 18.5 points and 26 points before resigning in November to serve as state agriculture secretary.

Morton later served as U.S. Agriculture Secretary under President Grover Cleveland.

On April 12, Mr. Ryan spearheaded the drafting of a letter signed by the entire Wisconsin congressional delegation to the Commerce Secretary, the acting U.S. Trade Representative and the acting Agriculture Secretary.

Agriculture Secretary admits to bizarre medieval practice expected to influence weather.

One day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters he gets on his knees every day and prays for rain, the Council for Secular Humanism - a leading atheist group - accused the Obama administration of sending the wrong message to farmers caught in one of the worst droughts in decades.

A network of organizations opposing genetically - modified organisms (GMOs) on Wednesday made an appeal to agriculture secretary Emmanuel Piñol to provide sustainable agricultural production and safe food for Filipinos.

A group of 43 members of the U.S. Food Industry Codex Coalition (FICC) and other allied associations today sent a letter supporting Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue's reorganization plan to assign responsibility for the U.S. Codex Office to the new Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs.

If you didn't know better, you'd think Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue had just overturned the entire Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) in a humiliating defeat for that meddling Food Nanny, Michelle Obama.

In a wide - ranging interview last week with Politico «s senior food policy reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich, outgoing Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he remains confident that most of the Obama nutritional reforms will be preserved: «'' I don't think that any administration, coming in, following this administration, would be able to roll back everything that's been done in the nutrition space.

The Illinois lawmakers requested a meeting with Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman afterthe Tribune reported Sunday that ammonia - laden chicken, beef and potato wedges landed in Illinois school cafeterias.

It's also worth noting that King is currently fighting to retain his Congressional seat against a challenge by Christie Vilsack, wife of the aforementioned Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

In a second skirmish, the committee also opted for compromise and gave Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack some flexibility in addressing complaints from school districts regarding the level of whole - grain foods they must include in lunch and breakfast meals.

After sharp protests from Leahy, Consumers Union and other groups, Ann Veneman, then agriculture secretary, rescinded these and two other directives issued by Robinson.

And at 8:50 a.m. the administration announced that Agriculture Secretary Darrel Aubertine is going to be in Keene at 10 a.m., to also make a flood recovery announcement.

In D.C., the U.S. Senate is scheduled to confirm (belatedly) the president's pick to be the next Agriculture secretary, Georgia former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue.

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey said state officials have quarantined and tested about 400 commercial and backyard flocks within 6.2 miles of the infected flocks.

Gov. Scott Walker has asked federal Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to declare Rusk and Sawyer counties disasters due to flooding earlier this year.

Oliver Heald entered Parliament in 1992 and was a parliamentary aide to Agriculture Secretary William Waldegrave from September 1994 until July 1995.

Ann M. Veneman, who served as agriculture secretary during President Bush's first term, was tapped last week to head UNICEF, the United Nations» children's agency.

(The other is Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack.)

Eleven farm groups wrote Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack last week to argue against any cuts in farm supports and particularly direct payments.

US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told an agriculture conference last Wednesday that he and President Donald Trump support the country's biofuels policy, and that any reports to the contrary are «fake news.»

«We understand that the nation's dairy producers are experiencing challenges due to market conditions and that food banks continue to see strong demand for assistance,» said agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack.

Department of Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala awarded posthumous honors to Perfecto «Ka Pecs» Vicente who recently passed away due to a lingering illness.

The long delay in getting Trump's nominee for agriculture secretary, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue (R), confirmed means that Sam Clovis, who was a Trump campaign adviser, and transition team leader Brian Klippenstein continue to serve as the agency's top political appointees.