Thomas J. Vilsack: “An inclusive agriculture and rural life must be part of a shift to a bottom-up, middle-out system.”

If you want to create distrust in government, continue this process.

Well, Senator, it absolutely is.

I would say, frankly, that as a Nation we have underfunded research in agriculture for far too long.

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