Tom Vilsack: “Transparency, the sunlight is an incredibly important tool.”

An inclusive agriculture and rural life must be part of a shift to a bottom-up, middle-out system.

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

It would likely mean a loss of 40,000 rental assistance units in rural America.

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