USDA boss pledges new farming model

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the Department of Agriculture will recenter around an effort to benefit small and midsized farm operations. “I think we’ve got to develop a new game, a game wherefarmerscannotonly raise crops and sell them, and raise livestock and sell them, and get government payments, but they can get other ways to make money from the same landmass, Vilsack said. …