Tom Vilsack: “we should not chase bad money with good.”

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

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.

The railroads should not be able to continue to operate without buffer for unexpected demand, make historic profits, and engage in enormous stock buybacks, all while providing subpar service to agricultural shippers and disregarding safety.

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