Tom Vilsack: “The present low milk prices are destroying dairy farmers.”

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

It would mean 6,600 farmers wouldn't get the credit they need to continue farming operations.

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

There is nothing more foundational to a country's security and stability than its food supply.