Tom Vilsack: “Challenges still remain for agriculture--especially for America's livestock and dairy producers.”

It would mean 84,000 farmers couldn't access the technical assistance they need to embrace conservation practices.

If those budget cuts, even the most conservative budget cut, that is to say, putting it back to levels of several years ago, would result, not in an increase in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)…

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.

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