Tom Vilsack: “We believe it is appropriate and necessary for us to modernize our inspection process to really focus attention and time…”

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

I think there are a lot of misconceptions about SNAP, and I think it stems from who people think are on SNAP.

I hope that that factor is taken into consideration, given the importance of this Department

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