Tom Vilsack: “Secretary, I believe your Department can help, but it is going to take some really, really hard work.”

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.

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