Cold Quote by Tom Vilsack

USDA Rural Development is responsible for helping rural counties and small communities provide public services and foster economic growth. Often these investments help fill…

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers…

— Tom Vilsack

If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the…

— Tom Vilsack

It is critical to develop a biofuel industry powered by feedstocks produced in every corner of the country, in addition to the Midwest. That…

— Tom Vilsack

The USDA is tasked with managing and promoting agriculture - including the well-funded animal agriculture industry - so it's pulled into a tug-of-war every…

— Michael Greger

American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm.

— Jerry Moran

I think that as a government agency, USDA has a responsibility to reduce the levels of contamination and to mandate a stringent approach to…

— Mike Espy

I have a sense that the USDA and the secretary who represents the USDA has always been seen as either a stranger or adversary…

— Mike Espy

Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry;…

— Marion Nestle

There are some farmers who have been terribly discriminated against by the USDA. They've suffered tremendous losses and pain and anguish, and they deserve…

— Mike Espy

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet…

— Mark Bittman

The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.

— Ben Sasse