The Food Safety Modernization Act, FSMA's purpose is to shift the focus of food safety towards prevention.

Farmers in my district need to have reliable and efficient markets in order to compete in the global economy.

Your budget was used as a political tool to convince people that Republicans were in the tank for Wall Street.

However, it is important that implementation is done properly in order to avoid unintended consequences to a supply chain that do not improve food safety.

You mentioned in that speech a point where the System could be left with too few banks.

making sure that you put people on the ground that actually understand what agriculture is, is something that is amazingly helpful when you are trying to make decisions.

Defending Against Imitations and Replacements of Yogurt, Milk, and Cheese To Promote Regular Intake of Dairy Everyday Act.

Even if we rub the crystal ball and we had an available labor supply, we are going to be moving towards mechanization.

The quality, the mislabeling of extra virgin, they are getting away with basically fraud on that.

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I'm on the committees I'm on for the basic reasons: To help agriculture, to build more water supply, and have wise use of our water supply.

I would like to see the money come to the private-sector by making money off the products than having to come from the Treasury.

As a rice farmer from California, I wanted to speak with... the EQIP as a very important tool with water saving practices.

Biomass seems to be the key towards healthier forests, cleaner air: many positive things.

I am really perplexed... I have a lot of friends out there, along with companies like SPI and different ones, and I am frustrated with the lack of support that they did get 10 years ago.

You can pay me now, or pay me later.

It is just one of these things that you go hat in hand every year begging for the secure rural school funding. Instead, we could be doing the work in the forest and not have to do that.

We love our dairy.