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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke to the Agribusiness Club of Washington, D.C. on National Agriculture Day, Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013. Secretary Vilsack discussed his four cornerstone priorities for the new rural economy – with special focus on building new markets for production agriculture and local/regional marketing of food. The graph to the right of Secretary Vilsack represents the progress in agriculture production form 1948-2009 and the graph to the left represents the progress in the cost of food in the same period. USDA photo by Bob Nichols.
20130319-OSEC-RBN-4749
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke to the Agribusiness Club of Washington, D.C. on National Agriculture Day, Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2013. Secretary Vilsack discussed his four cornerstone priorities for the new rural economy – with special focus on building new markets for production agriculture and local/regional marketing of food. The graph to the right of Secretary Vilsack represents the progress in agriculture production form 1948-2009 and the graph to the left represents the progress in the cost of food in the same period. USDA photo by Bob Nichols.