Thomas J. Vilsack: “we have had a record year in farm income in the last 2 years; however, that bounty has not been fully shared by all…”

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)…

the goal of this budget, frankly, is to invest in a stronger America, and to expand our middle class

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

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