date:Jan 17, 2013
Last year was a tough one for farmers and ranchers, and while many are anxious to put it behind them, a number of 2012s key events will be driving the Agriculture Departments efforts in 2013, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told attendees at the American Farm Bureau Federations 94th Annual Meeting.
Chief among those events was the drought and its continuing ramifications, like the significantly low Mississippi River levels. Key lessons Vilsack said he learned from the drought are the extraord