Thomas J. Vilsack: “There is nothing more foundational to a country's security and stability than its food supply.”

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

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)…

we would like to be able to open up more credit opportunities for beginning farmers

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