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U.S. Agriculture Secretary visits Utah House, outlines farm aid, forest and trade priorities
Summary
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (named in the transcript as Ben/Dan Glickman) addressed the Utah House on Feb. 28, describing USDA programs, forest management challenges and trade efforts — including a new 50,000-tonne wheat sale to China — and answered representatives’ questions on inheritance taxes, forest roads and livestock insurance pilots.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ben Glickman visited the Utah House on Feb. 28 and described the department’s broad responsibilities and near-term priorities, saying nutrition programs and food safety make up large portions of the USDA’s budget and that trade expansion remains a central aim.
Glickman told representatives the USDA’s overall annual budget is on the order of tens of billions of dollars and that roughly 95,000 employees work across the department; the largest single workforce is in the U.S. Forest Service, which he said employs about 35,000 people. He said roughly $35 billion of the department’s budget supports federal nutrition programs, including school lunch and commodities purchases for roughly 100,000 schools.
Glickman described the USDA as both a…
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