U.S. climate smart strategies are transforming agriculture practices nationwide and across the world, providing opportunities for growers to become more productive, profitable and sustainable while feeding a growing world population, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told a group of approximately 200 guests in Des Moines last week.

Vilsack provided the closing remarks Oct. 20 at the World Food Prize Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue and said Borlaug, founder and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate who was dedicated to feeding a hungry world, would be proud of the initiatives being implemented today.

“This is a transformational moment in agriculture,” said Vilsack. “Change doesn’t occur in a moment. It occurs...