Tom Vilsack: “We want to encourage producers to do what they need to do for their operations.”

If you authorize it, if Congress creates the opportunity for this, we will be more than happy to utilize that program.

It will if it is adequately funded.

It’s very direct, and I think it speaks significantly and centrally to the challenges that many Iowa farmers face today.

I think you two gentlemen have laid out a plan that addresses the fundamental weakness of our current farm policy.