Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

While residents of the Midwest await the Mississippi River to swell to its highest level in more than 70 years, traders are contemplating how a worst-case scenario could affect the underlying commodities markets. The largest and most destructive flood in the history of the United States occurred...

The US is taking allegations of monopolistic behavior in the agriculture industry seriously. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack addressed a group of farmers, labor and consumer groups and corporate representatives at an Iowa college auditorium. The previous day...