Tom Vilsack: “I appreciate the support from Congress.”

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

I would say, frankly, that as a Nation we have underfunded research in agriculture for far too long.

If you raise the minimum wage, you would reduce the SNAP population by a significant amount.

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