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Perdue vows to keep up pressure for Northey approval

Author

Dirck Steimel

Published

11/13/2017

Perdue vows to keep up pressure for Northey approval — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, center, answers questions about the delay in Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey’s appointment as U.S. Department of Agriculture under secretary. The press conference in Urbandale celebrated veterans’ contributions to agriculture. Iowa Rep. David Young, left, joined Perdue at the press conference, moderated by Doug Cooper of WHO Radio

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In a visit to Iowa last week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue vowed to keep up the pressure to secure approval of Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey’s nomination for the newly-created post of under secretary for farm production and conservation in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

“I’m very disappointed in what’s...

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