Thomas J. Vilsack: “This is a great question, and I appreciate you raising it.”

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)…

This budget is at a critical point, at a transformational point, in my view, in rural America, and in agriculture.

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