"I think our budget is a constructive one. And I think it is furthering the interests of conservation."
"You have to have the resources available to farmers to incent them to produce the feedstocks."
"The uncertainty about the RFS2 also had issues, which we've now cleared up."
"Corn-based ethanol is alive and well, meeting the threshold of 20 percent; soy diesel, biodiesel alive and well, meeting the threshold."
"If we continued down the road we were on, we'd continue to have participation in some, but not all, of livestock."
"What we think will happen at the end of this is that there'll be greater cooperation between State and Federal Government."
"one of the things we found out was that there were many communities, both rural and in inner-city America, that did not have access to a grocery store."
"There is a need for better data collection so that we have a better understanding of precisely what causes the difficulties and illnesses that Americans experience."
"We think there needs to be expanded research efforts on identifying pathogens that we may not even be aware of today."
"The administration will work to eliminate food deserts across the country within 7 years."
"The challenges facing rural communities for decades have grown more acute, which is why the Obama administration is committed to new approaches to strengthen rural America."
"The dairy outlook is, I think, much better than it was last year when we were faced with record low prices."