Tom Vilsack: “We have significant safeguards built into all of our systems at USDA to make sure that individual identities are…”

we have had a record year in farm income in the last 2 years; however, that bounty has not been fully shared by all farmers

investments in research that create new opportunities; new income opportunities, is a way of maintaining those small- and mid-sized farming operations

This is fundamental to our whole approach to trade.

States know who the recipients are because they administer the SNAP Program, and they also know where the jobs are.