Tom Vilsack

Fourteen senators are pushing back against a potential reclassification of potatoes from vegetables to grains by the US Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services. The senators submitted a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday,...

A ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, U.S. Senator John Boozman (R) recently indicated that a congressional farm bill might need a deadline extension. What happened: Washington lawmakers failed to pass the bill by the end-of-September deadline and now have a...

The first shipment of baby formula from Europe arrived by military aircraft in Indiana on Sunday. What Happened: The shipment of 78,000 pounds of formula was delivered to the U.S. after President Joe Biden gave authorization for the importation of formula from foreign countries. The critical...