The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association is calling for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to resign in the wake of a fiasco that saw USDA employee Shirley Sherrod fired unnecessarily late ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. INDIANOLA — With large farm operations dominating agriculture and small, family farms growing ever ...

Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is planning to meet with groups around the state to tout ideas that offer farmers different income streams and keep more people in rural Iowa. Vilsack’s first stop was ...

Tom Vilsack said Democrats should "connect the dots" between cuts to social safety programs and impacts on rural areas. Vilsack is a former Iowa governor and the U.S. secretary of agriculture under ...

Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, a Democrat, suggests he and Republican Governor Kim Reynolds have something in common when it comes to rejecting bills to restrict the use of eminent domain. Reynolds ...

Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack keynoted the Dallas County Democrats' annual Spring Dinner on May 22. Vilsack told the crowd to "connect the dots" about the SNAP cuts in ...

Former USDA secretary Tom Vilsack hopes for bipartisan support to addressing hunger as the new CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation. This month, former governor of Iowa and U.S. Secretary of ...

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack visited Boone Thursday morning, where he hosted an open forum with farmers and Iowans.Vilsack addressed a small group of attendees at Ericson Public Library about ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says his early years growing up in an orphanage still impact his outlook on food and farming. After completing his second term as ...

DES MOINES — Tom Vilsack will not run for Iowa’s U.S. Senate seat in 2020. Vilsack, the former two-term Iowa governor and federal agriculture secretary, was considered a potential Democratic candidate ...