I'm disappointed in the budget, on conservation.
We just can't back off of all the great strides we've started to make in conservation.
I know there are budget problems, but it just seems to me that this is one area where we can't back off--I'm concerned deeply about it.
But, in the farm bill we put that money in there, including funds for technical assistance and personnel to carry it out, and we paid for it...
Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
Well, I appreciate your explanation. I may want to just get some more elaboration on that. But, you make a strong argument.
You have to have the resources available to farmers to incent them to produce the feedstocks.
The uncertainty about the RFS2 also had issues, which we've now cleared up.
We believe this is a good budget, a strong budget, a budget that has elements of reform and responds to the challenges that we face in rural...
It's time to get our fiscal house in order.
The challenges facing rural communities for decades have grown more acute, which is why the Obama administration is committed to new approac...
We see this as a critical component, as I said earlier, a critical pillar to a new revitalized rural economy.
If we continued down the road we were on, we'd continue to have participation in some, but not all, of livestock.
I think our budget is a constructive one. And I think it is furthering the interests of conservation.
Corn-based ethanol is alive and well, meeting the threshold of 20 percent; soy diesel, biodiesel alive and well, meeting the threshold.
one of the things we found out was that there were many communities, both rural and in inner-city America, that did not have access to a gro...
What we think will happen at the end of this is that there'll be greater cooperation between State and Federal Government.
There is a need for better data collection so that we have a better understanding of precisely what causes the difficulties and illnesses th...
