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Beginning farmers get grant support; big market rallies require temperance; New members in Congress will need ag schooling; watch IRS requirements for prepaying expenses

Farming is misrepresented by mainstream media and consumers

USDA Secretary predicts export and trade growth

While agriculture primarily focuses on who runs USDA, people at other agencies are just as important.

Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack has a new title: USDA secretary.

Farm Journal and Farm Foundation teamed up in 2009 to host “A Conversation with the Secretaries”, featuring seven of the former Secretaries of Agriculture.

See the full list of programs without baseline funding.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack answers tough questions in this exclusive interview

The Federal Reserve’s plan to keep interest rates where they are buy $600 billion of Treasuries, should mean good news for agriculture.

The schism in the cattle industry is evident, and now wider, since the Department of Justice’s August hearing on competition in the livestock sector. More than 1,300 people crowded into an auditorium at Colorado State University to exchange views—and hoots, hisses, jeers and cheers—on what government should do to impact the way cattle are traded. Nearly 700 more people were herded into overflow rooms to watch the action on TV.