Tom Vilsack: “I don't know, it's scrum, maybe, to use a different sports analogy. It's anyone's game.”

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

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

It would mean 6,600 farmers wouldn't get the credit they need to continue farming operations.

Every dollar of research generates twenty dollars, or more, of economic opportunity.