Tom Vilsack: “Net farm income remains strong, and the farm debt-to-asset ratio is at a record low today.”

If you authorize it, if Congress creates the opportunity for this, we will be more than happy to utilize that program.

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

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

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.