We must, but everything should be on the table and it should not be disproportionate with other programs.
I think a lot of this, Madam Chairwoman, is the impact of crop insurance and how it fits in and the problems that we hav...
Too many questions. Are there any funds available through Section 32 to address the disaster we are going through with t...
The State of Kansas and Kansas City University were selected to be the home of the new national bio and agri defense fac...
The fact that you pointed out that you have an 8 percent growth in regards to organic right in the middle of a recession...
I am very confident we will be able to proceed with the farm bill.
People think of Kansas as a model agricultural state, i.e., we are a lot more involved in a lot of other things.
It's important for the department to maintain a leadership role in the review process outlined in the coordinated framew...
I believe we must carefully review all Federal funding to ensure that we are budgeting for critical needs appropriately.
Thank you for the opportunity to go to Michigan on our first hearing and learn firsthand for so many specialty crop grow...
He deserves a lot of credit for doing that and I know the department is doing its best to do exactly that.
I have genuine concern that community banks are on the verge of becoming a thing of the past, and in large part I believ...
The definition of 'well capitalized' seems to have a different definition in regard to whether or not you are a large or...
The regulatory environment and costs that we encounter no longer make this a profitable venture.
If you are seeking a loan at a community bank and you are someplace in a larger city with a larger financial institution...
We are waiting for the evidence that something is different in regard to those community banks.
there could be better coordination between U.S. regulators and their counterparts abroad
To suggest that the U.S. sets a gold standard that other markets should follow is nonsense.