Tom Vilsack: “Even the president's own advisers have lost faith in his ability to set policy.”

What I can tell you, Senator, and I will get a specific answer to that hypothetical.

I would say, frankly, that as a Nation we have underfunded research in agriculture for far too long.

American farmers have done exactly what we asked them to do.

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