Tom Vilsack: “I want to focus on the phrase, extraction economy.”

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

we have had a record year in farm income in the last 2 years; however, that bounty has not been fully shared by all farmers

Every dollar of research generates twenty dollars, or more, of economic opportunity.

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