Tom Vilsack: “Today, our country and the Department of Agriculture again face historic challenges.”

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

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

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

What I am happy to do is work with the Members of this Committee and others to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (117th Congress--H.R. 1603), which could have solved this problem, Congressman.