Tom Vilsack

Former USDA secretary Tom Vilsack hopes for bipartisan support to addressing hunger as the new CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for a new pilot program to turn agricultural waste into construction products and other useful materials.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited Iowa on Friday to announce $32 million in grants for mass timber projects.

Mexico is phasing out genetically modified corn for human consumption by 2024. But U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he's been assured by his Mexican counterpart that the ban won't shut off the biggest international customer for U.S. corn.

Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development will join U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in Iowa this week.

An Iowa Latino civil rights organization has filed a petition with the Iowa Secretary of State to clarify the state’s so-called “English-Only” law.

While Iowa's small-scale hog farmers need meat processing services, they are increasingly finding it hard to get access to slaughterhouses. USDA wants to build "resiliency" in the sector, but will it work?

A years-long bipartisan effort to improve competition in agriculture could benefit from the new administration.