The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. INDIANOLA — With large farm operations dominating agriculture and small, family farms growing ever ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has proposed delaying the effective date of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOONE, Iowa — The Iowa Democratic Party started a series of events this summer with former Iowa Governor and USDA Secretary Tom ...

NORTH LIBERTY — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack envisions the farms of the future looking like subdivisions. “You'll have a portion of the farm that will grow traditional commodity crops,” ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack said it's likely you haven't thought of one of the biggest challenges facing farmers today. On Friday, May 30, the two-time U.S. Secretary of Agriculture ...

Tom Vilsack is all for improving school lunches. But that’s not what the former head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture sees happening with federal policy aiming to “Make America Healthy Again.” ...

Former USDA secretary Tom Vilsack hopes for bipartisan support to addressing hunger as the new CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation. This month, former governor of Iowa and U.S. Secretary of ...

Kevin Barnes, NASS Associate Administrator, Hubert Hamer, NASS Administrator, Cindy Nickerson, OCE Deputy Chief Economist, and Mark Jekanowski, World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair at USDA (USDA ...

The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association is calling for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to resign in the wake of a fiasco that saw USDA employee Shirley Sherrod fired unnecessarily late ...

WASHINGTON – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today outlined a series of actions by the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture to conserve the old-growth forests of the Tongass ...