Ag Secretary Vilsack to visit Vermont
By Dairy Herd news source
| Monday, February 08, 2010
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont dairy farmers will get a chance to voice their concerns to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who will attend a dairy town hall meeting in Burlington next weekend.
Sens. Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy also will be on the panel at the Saturday event at the Hilton.
Later that day, Vilsack will speak at the Northeast Organic Farming Association annual winter conference and at the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery annual meeting in St. Albans.
The dairy town meeting starts at 10 a.m. and is open to the public.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
