Tom Vilsack: “We are clearly focused on this, and we understand the unique nature of farm work.”

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

It is physically demanding and at times dangerous.

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.

Well, the House Agriculture appropriations talked about an 18 percent cut to our budget, so you can do the math.