Tom Vilsack: “I am confident, because I think we have addressed both short-term and long-term, traditional and nontraditional…”

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

I think you two gentlemen have laid out a plan that addresses the fundamental weakness of our current farm policy.

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.

If you make hunger the number one priority, then I can guarantee you that governors will have to listen, corporate CEOs will have to listen, nonprofits will have to listen.