In Vermont, dairy has been our backbone in terms of playing that role historically, and it is under immense pressure.

How do we maintain local agriculture, small family agriculture, for the values that it represents?

Farmers, we want to participate in every single sustainability program.

We have an enormous appreciation for small local agriculture because it does so much for the people who live in that area.

There is an enormous pressure on you to be, quote, 'efficient.' That gets translated into being big.

In Vermont, dairy has been our backbone in terms of playing that role historically, and it is under immense pressure.

I believe it does. These renewable natural gas digesters are fantastic technology.

How do we maintain local agriculture, small family agriculture, for the values that it represents?

We have an enormous appreciation for small local agriculture because it does so much for the people who live in that area.

Farmers, we want to participate in every single sustainability program.

I want to speak about the looming debt crisis, the fact that within 30 days, there is a real and substantial likelihood that America will do something that America has never done; and that is fail to pay its bills in full and on time…

There is an enormous pressure on you to be, quote, 'efficient.' That gets translated into being big.

there is a great deal of concern about climate issues, and I think, on this Committee, a real desire to find ways to make it possible for the agricultural community to make the significant contribution of reducing carbon emission.

the definition of a small farm is changing. It is not 75 cows anymore. It is 500 to 800.

How do we maintain local agriculture, small family agriculture, for the values that it represents?

We have an enormous appreciation for small local agriculture because it does so much for the people who live in that area.

In the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court disregarded precedent and stare decisis in order to achieve an outcome.

A good judge will consider precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court as worthy of treatment like any other.