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

States know who the recipients are because they administer the SNAP Program, and they also know where the jobs are.

There is nothing more foundational to a country's security and stability than its food supply.

If those budget cuts, even the most conservative budget cut, that is to say, putting it back to levels of several years ago, would result, not in an increase in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)…

I hope that that factor is taken into consideration, given the importance of this Department

It would mean 84,000 farmers couldn't access the technical assistance they need to embrace conservation practices.

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

The reality is that we don't need another study, there are literally hundreds of studies about the safety of this technology.

What I can tell you, Senator, and I will get a specific answer to that hypothetical.

It would likely mean a loss of 40,000 rental assistance units in rural America.

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

the goal of this budget, frankly, is to invest in a stronger America, and to expand our middle class

this budget is at a critical point, at a transformational point, in my view, in rural America, and in agriculture.

What I am happy to do is work with the Members of this Committee and others to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (117th Congress--H.R. 1603), which could have solved this problem, Congressman.

What you are hearing is uncertainty.

What you are hearing is uncertainty.

This is fundamental to our whole approach to trade.

This is fundamental to our whole approach to trade.

This is fundamental to our whole approach to trade.

I am supportive of it, but let me just simply say I think you need to go beyond that.

Those safety nets are designed to keep people on the farm, and to keep them farming so they can do what every farmer that I know wants to do, which is to pass it on to the next generation.

We have got to figure out how we can create more revenue streams for farmers.

90 percent of our farmers need help.

This has been with us for a while.

I am told that by 2025, we will get that job done.