Star Tribune: USDA secretary announces $230M for rural development at Minnesota State Fair
28 Aug 2023
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The nation's top agricultural official — U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack — took in a whirlwind tour of the Minnesota State Fair on Monday, greeting a tiara-wearing dairy princess, sampling a pork schnitzel sandwich and enduring good-natured jabs from Minnesota's congressional delegation about that rival big fair in the secretary's home state of Iowa.
After noting Minnesota leads the nation in production of turkeys, sweet corn and sugar beets, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said, "I don't know where Iowa is in any of these things, Mr. Secretary."
In Iowa's defense, Vilsack retorted the Hawkeye state is "number one for breakfast: hogs and eggs."
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