Tom Vilsack: “It is important and necessary for the USDA to continue to look for ways to expand income opportunities for farmers.”

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

There is no doubt that there are many, many, many working poor, working poor with an emphasis on working.

If you take SNAP and you reduce it or you eliminate it, you are obviously going to impact not just the poor families that are receiving it.

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