Ag budget gets mixed reaction

WASHINGTON — House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Feb. 24 that the she is pleased with the Obama administration’s requests in the fiscal year 2011 budget to increase domestic nutrition, but questions whether the administration’s plans for a national animal identification program run by the states can work.

By: Jerry Hagstrom, Special to Agweek