| Secretary Vilsack Testifies Before the Senate Agriculture Committee On Wednesday, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack testified before the Senate Agriculture Committee. Republicans and Democrats agreed on the importance of passing a bipartisan farm bill to provide stability for producers and the agriculture sector. Republicans were concerned about high input costs and inflation as well as stagnant commodity prices while Democrats called attention to the impacts of nutrition and conservation programs and the need to protect their funding. Other topics discussed in the hearing included California’s Proposition 12, the Secretary’s use of the Commodity Credit Corporation, protecting small and medium-sized producers, and the agricultural trade deficit. This hearing was the second time Secretary Vilsack testified before Congress recently, as the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing on February 7. A recording of the hearing can be found here. |
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