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Remarks as Delivered by Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden and NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman at Signing of USDA-NASA Partnership Agreement

July 16, 2015 Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden: Thank you, Dr. Tu and so good to be with you, Dr. Newman, especially out here. I see you in Washington, but this is a lot more fun. As Deputy Secretary, I get to do a lot of kind of cool stuff as you might imagine mainly with farmers and ranchers, with...

Transcript: Remarks as Delivered by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at the 2015 World Food Prize Laureate Announcement Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC

July 1, 2015 Sec. Vilsack: Thank you very much. Ambassador Quinn, thank you very, very much. Certainly have appreciated our friendship and our work together, uh to focus on the World Food prize and certainly carry out the great legacy of Dr. Borlaug and vision of John Ruan, another great Iowan who...

National Media Call Transcript: Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces $150 Million, New Partnership to Support Water Quality and Quantity in Drought-Stricken California

June 24, 2015 Moderator: Hello everybody. And thank you for joining us for this call. The topic today is going to be support - new support that is for producers that have been affected by drought in California. And we have on the line from California, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Interior...

Transcript Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, Interior Secretary Jewell, Forest Service Chief Tidwell Media Briefing on Projections for Upcoming Wildfire Season; Stress Need to Change the Way Catastrophic Wildfires are Funded

Moderator: Thank you for joining us. We are here to talk about the projections for the upcoming 2015 wildfire season. We have on the line Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Forest Service Chief, Tom Tidwell who are all going to be discussing this topic. Reporters...

Remarks as Delivered by Secretary Vilsack to Graduates at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Spring 2015 Commencement in Tallahassee, Florida

Madame President, thank you very much. I know what you are all thinking. Really? A commencement speech. Get on with it. We want that diploma. Just so you know this is the speech, so it's going to be short because I realize the class of '15 knows a lot more from their studies than I would ever know...

Remarks as Delivered by Secretary Vilsack and Panelists at 2015 Agricultural Outlook Forum Plenary Panel on Innovation, Biotechnology and Big Data

Secretary Tom Vilsack - Introduction Well I want to get the next panel started, but I'm going to do this in a very abbreviated introduction so that we have as much time for our dialogue. Let me start with Dr. Robert Fraley, who is to my left, the Executive Vice President Chief Technology Officer of...

Remarks as Delivered by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and European Commissioner of Agriculture & Rural Development Phil Hogan at 2015 Agricultural Outlook Forum Roundtable Discussion

Secretary Tom Vilsack Before I introduce my good friend Commissioner Hogan and spend a few minutes engaging in a dialogue, let me just real briefly extend my thanks to the Deputy Secretary and to Rob and their teams for giving this opportunity to continue this great tradition. Certainly, I would be...

Transcript: USDA and CDC Update to Media on Highly Pathogenic H5N2 Avian Influenza Outbreaks

Moderator: Rodney Bain April 22, 2015 11:00 am EDT Coordinator: Good day and welcome to today's live broadcast from the USDA Radio Studios in Washington D.C. featuring USDA's Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr. John Clifford, as well as Dr. Alicia Fry of the Centers for Disease Control, and Dr. David...

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Secretary Vilsack on Rollout of USDA's Building Blocks for Climate Smart Agriculture & Forestry Strategy at Michigan State University

Welcome, and thank you all for being here today. Thank you to MSU Provost June Pierce Youatt for hosting us here on the beautiful Michigan State University campus. It's fitting that I'm here today to give this speech. Michigan State University has set some aggressive goals in the fields of energy...

Medical Experts Call on Congress to Maintain Healthy School Meal Standards (Transcript)

Audio Transcript of Media Call with Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, Dr. Robert M. Wah of the American Medical Association, Dr. Benard Dreyer of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, Chief Medical Officer for Prevention at the American Heart Association (Moderator): Hello...

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