Source: Chris Clayton, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 2/24/21

As Tom Vilsack was sworn in Wednesday afternoon as Agriculture secretary, he already faces a request from his home-state congressional delegation asking to expand COVID-19 relief aid to include custom cattle feeders. He will also face some calls to unfreeze some aid to producers and also to push for states to vaccinate various workers in agricultural and food sectors of the economy. The Iowa congressional delegation -- five Republicans and one Democrat -- wrote Vilsack...

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