Thomas J. Vilsack: “It would mean 84,000 farmers couldn't access the technical assistance they need to embrace conservation practices.”

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)…

we have had a record year in farm income in the last 2 years; however, that bounty has not been fully shared by all farmers

I would say, frankly, that as a Nation we have underfunded research in agriculture for far too long.

This is a great question, and I appreciate you raising it.