Thomas J. Vilsack: “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 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

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