I ran out of time in my last question, so I just want to reinforce the issue I was bringing up about PFAS, and encourage you, and I am happy to follow up with this, to have NRCS doing more, supporting more of the soil testing.

Do you think there is something we should be looking at when it comes to the 2018 Farm Bill and LAMP to make sure that this is a possibility and it is covered?

And when we talk about EQIP, we are looking at how do we make it more flexible?

The more we can do to expand those local networks is really important.

It is such an important time to be discussing these programs as we look into the farm bill.

the early adopters are also rewarded in the system, the folks who have been doing this all along.

We know it is getting worse, not better.

I have a bill called the Hemp Advancement Act of 2022 (H.R. 6645) that really deals with some of the statutory changes...

The Agriculture Resilience Act calls for robust investments in Federal conservation programs.

I have been interested in this for a long time, and pushing NRCS to adopt composting as a conservation practice for several years.

Questions Submitted by Hon. Chellie Pingree, a Representative in Congress from Maine

Technical assistance is one of the key opportunities and, frankly, challenges when it comes to serving rural places.

the Continuous Improvement and Accountability in Organic Standards Act

Maine is considered one of the most rural states in the nation, and we have a lot of distance between internet service providers.

Maine is the most forested state in the nation with a lot of private forest land, so that is a big interest to us.

I think we are all interested in this.

We are all so supportive of doing more for rural America.

We think this is a much-needed and important complement to the farm bill conservation programs.