Tom Vilsack: “Corn-based ethanol is alive and well, meeting the threshold of 20 percent; soy diesel, biodiesel alive and well, meeting…”

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

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

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