Thomas J. Vilsack: “We have got to figure out how we can create more revenue streams for farmers.”

An inclusive agriculture and rural life must be part of a shift to a bottom-up, middle-out system.

If those budget cuts, even the most conservative budget cut, that is to say, putting it back to levels of several years ago, would result, not in an increase in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)…

I think it is important for people to know who is actually receiving SNAP.

we would like to be able to open up more credit opportunities for beginning farmers