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Congress must reform these programs to fulfill the promise of the IRA funding and ensure it flows to greenhouse gas reducing practices.

Voluntary conservation programs administered by the Department of Agriculture could play a significant role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Unless we reduce agricultural emissions of nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane, we will fail to achieve the greenhouse gas reductions needed to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

It is time for a massive shift to save our agri-system.

Soil is the source of our lives, and it is responsible for life on Earth.

If we bring small farms back into our rural communities across the United States, we will not only have a local food system that doesn't depend on the fossil fuels to get it to the shelf, but it can go directly from the farms to the…

Education is the key.

The alarm to increasing soil degradation leads me to acknowledge that regenerative agriculture is part of the solution to this crisis.

Unlike organic agriculture, which must meet Federal standards and are subject to inspections, regenerative agriculture lacks a clear scientific definition.

I can tell you every news station in my home state last week was running stories about drought and showing just the devastation to small farmers.

As this Congress continues to make critical investments to mitigate climate change, I am hoping that our witnesses can provide testimony that gives us solutions to help farms of all sizes.

Today, we need programs in place to support and promote the growing market for locally produced food grown in chemical-free soil.

Soil health is imperative to American health.

The president’s vision around mitigating the climate crisis and preparing for the future in an adaptive way is really intertwined into these resources that we have at our fingertips.

It’s our job to be sure that every person in Jackson has access to good-quality drinking water.

Over 50 percent of the resources from the bipartisan infrastructure bill has to go to disadvantaged communities, communities of color, communities exactly like Jackson.

We have to put aside our political differences. There are millions of dollars on the table right now that Jackson needs to apply for, so that we can begin to move forward, $43 million, to be exact, that Jackson has access to immediately.

This is some Third World bull (EXPLETIVE DELETED) right here.