I would like to see an authentic and deep, committed investment into young, beginning, small, traditional, Indigenous, land-based farmers of color by the USDA.

Senator Marshall and I introduced a bill just earlier today--we can do two things at once.

I think answering that question is going to be so vital for the next generation of Americans and the generations coming after that.

I know you are familiar with the droughts that we are facing in Colorado and Kansas, and as you noted in your testimony the last farm bill had multiple provisions to help producers, and water managers, to cope with water scarcity.

One of the great things about this Committee is that it is not a very partisan Committee.

I am excited to have somebody on the Agriculture Committee who has got as much firsthand experience as you do.

It is remarkable, I think, to have the kind of breadth of perspectives that we have had this morning.

I agree strongly with the view that other people have expressed today, that one-size-fits-all approaches, when it comes to American agriculture, does not make a lot of sense.

Today our farmers and ranchers are not dealing with the Dust Bowl, but they are facing, in my part of the country, a 1,200-year drought.

I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, for being here.

I fought to give them another $20 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act.

I have made no secret of my admiration and appreciation for Julie Su.

If it takes 80 hours for the possibility of receiving $1,700, I can see why someone would think twice before applying.

I fought to give them another $20 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act.

They deserve conservation programs at USDA as imaginative as they are, as ambitious as the problems they seek to solve.

They deserve conservation programs at USDA as imaginative as they are, as ambitious as the problems they seek to solve.

Thank you to my Ranking Member, Senator Marshall, for his partnership.

We have the worst income inequality that we have had since the 1920's in this country.