Thomas J. Vilsack: “I am encouraging you to think about flexibility and also the fact that as disasters strike they have regional…”

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

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

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

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