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Over 98 percent of Arizona dairies are family owned and operated, and these families depend on our work to stabilize prices and incentivize domestic production.

Dairy is an essential part of Arizona's economy, and among the top commodities in Arizona's First Congressional District.

I want to thank Chairman Scott and Ranking Member Thompson for organizing this important hearing.

Our first priority is what we have been in here talking about.

This country offers more than that.

We need to be looking at what can we do in order to correct the course of the policies we have seen over the past couple of years that lead people into those poverty circumstances.

We are losing dairy farms every single day.

We must listen to farmers and continue a dialogue with industry and USDA as we navigate that issue to identify the best approach to any changes moving forward.

I look forward to a productive conversation about programs, such as DMC, designed to give these farmers a safety net that works.

I would say that this is really an investment in your local agriculture, which is really a homeland security issue as well.

I am disappointed in the criticism of that program from President Biden and Secretary Vilsack.

We need to be cognizant that the nitrogen and the potash... may not be there next year.

We are about to see people literally starving to death throughout Africa, Asia, and other lower-income parts of the world.

I hope that America is watching what is happening with the food supply around the world.

Demand for food assistance is growing, and food banks need more Federal support to meet rising demand.

These critical anti-hunger and nutrition incentive programs work together, alongside SNAP, to tackle food insecurity from different angles.

This is not about every individual farm inside the United States. It is about domestic agriculture production.

About 90 percent of the ag production in this country comes from around 12 percent of the farms.