Vilsack is Secretary of Agriculture

As AFP puts it:

[Obama] nominated former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack as his secretary of agriculture, putting the fervent advocate of corn-based ethanol in charge of the nation's much-criticized 300-billion-dollar farm spending.

I can think of a few U.S. trading partners who will not like this pick.

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On the other hand, I had not realized this:

To his credit, he has advocated phasing out subsidies to corn-based ethanol (a brave stance for an Iowa man) and last year endorsed removing the tariff on Brazilian sugar-based ethanol.