Tom Vilsack: “one of the things we found out was that there were many communities, both rural and in inner-city America, that did not…”

Well, the House Agriculture appropriations talked about an 18 percent cut to our budget, so you can do the math.

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

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.

It is physically demanding and at times dangerous.