Tom Vilsack: “Every $1 billion of agriculture sales creates 8,000 to 9,000 jobs.”

this budget is at a critical point, at a transformational point, in my view, in rural America, and in agriculture.

It’s very direct, and I think it speaks significantly and centrally to the challenges that many Iowa farmers face today.

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

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