Thomas J. Vilsack: “We want to expand this program. We understand and appreciate that the definition of farming is different today than it…”

It is an outrage--I mean, to me, it is an outrageous process because it comes as a tremendous surprise.

This is a great question, and I appreciate you raising it.

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

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