Thomas J. Vilsack: “We are basically taking a look at the law that was passed by Congress.”

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)…

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

investments in research that create new opportunities; new income opportunities, is a way of maintaining those small- and mid-sized farming operations

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