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Vilsack tells rural advocates to make their case for rural America

Jun 25, 2013

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by

Heidi Marttila-Losure

in Farms

After raising the issue of the relevancy of rural places to the national political conversation last December, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took a step beyond that Tuesday as he addressed the National Rural Assembly: Why aren’t rural advocates outraged when rural places are dismissed as irrelevant?