#Vilsack

Cora Fox

corafox_

1/ I've received countless calls from cattle producers concerned about headlines they've read over the past few days w/ regard to COVID relief payments & the Biden Administration. Here's a

Shawn Sebastian 🐺

shawnsebastian

.@RepMarciaFudge has made it very clear she wants to be @USDA Secretary, and she'd be great.If the rumors are true that Vilsack has suddenly become the frontrunner, Vilsack will have

American Economic Liberties Project

econliberties

.@USDA has the power to help rural America thrive, but recent admins have failed to do so.Today, Big Ag has a hand in everything from seed genetics to hog processing

Tom Philpott

tomphilpott

As Uncle Joe himself would say, come on, mannnnnnnhttps://twitter.com/liz_crampton/status/1335985200900272132 Let's do a trip down memory lane of the USDA in the Vilsack era. Here's what I wrote when Obama picked

National Farmers Union

NFUDC

155 years ago, the last slaves in the U.S. were freed.They were promised "40 acres & a mule," a path to financial independence. But this promise was broken, ultimately depriving

Insurrection is bad, actually 🗽

ProfJSCarberry

1/ This week in the disappointment of Biden’s transition & cabinet picks:- Ron Klain bails on meeting w AAPI Caucus- Sec Def nominee is both former military & on board

mo

mo87mo87

It looks like @RepMarciaFudge is chosen as the new @HUDgov Secretary. Very interesting choice by the Biden-Harris team. We don't know much about what Rep. Fudge thinks on housing, but

The Counter

TheCounter

We’re settling in to watch Secretary of Agriculture nominee Tom Vilsack’s confirmation hearing. Stay tuned for highlights, and watch it live here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?508411-1/agriculture-secretary-nominee-tom-vilsack-confirma

Bill McKibben

billmckibben

So Biden's climate/energy/environment team is mostly complete, and on balance there's never been anything like it in U.S. history. With people like @RepDebHaaland and @GinaNRDC and @JohnKerry and @JenGranholm, there's

Vanessa García Polanco, MS

vgpvisions

For this #FoodJusticeFriday I am talking about the Secretary of Agriculture. We have been in our tiptoes waiting for the announcement of the @Transition46. So here is a more detailed

Heather_Lee

HeatherLee1023

Biden names Tom “Mr. Monsanto” Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary. Here’s some background on Monsanto... Monsanto is most commonly known for producing genetically modified (GMO) seeds and the herbicide glyphosate known

Jim Geraghty

jimgeraghty

To review, Joe Biden picked a Health and Human Services Secretary nominee with no background in health care or HC policy… during a pandemic.https://bit.ly/343Q8NL Former national-security adviser Susan Rice, who

anthony schutz

anthony_schutz

Trying to reconcile a few of tweets. One is on how distributed attention to rural is across the federal apparatus, https://twitter.com/mhildreth/status/1336454096090525704?s=20, and the other is one equating rural with ag

Joseph Britt

Zathras3

Good, deep dive into who might get what jobs in the Biden Department of Agriculture by @hbottemiller @mmcassella & @liz_crampton at @politico. Important thing to know about USDA: [short thread]....https://twitter.com/quintforgey/status/

Stephen Foskett

SFoskett

Now that qualified adults have returned to Washington, I look forward to not following politics as closely anymore Someone I like and respect said I’m glad because “my guy won”

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Since ag twitter is a racist hot mess, this seems like a great time to remind everyone:1) The median farmer is nearly a millionaire! They clock in at $800K net

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