Thomas J. Vilsack: “Every dollar of research generates twenty dollars, or more, of economic opportunity.”

We need to reduce methane, and we can. There are strategies, and we also need to capture it and convert it.

It would mean 84,000 farmers couldn't access the technical assistance they need to embrace conservation practices.

I hope that that factor is taken into consideration, given the importance of this Department

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