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 d...
We just can't back off of all the great strides we've started to make in conservation.
I'm disappointed in the budget, on conservation.
I'm hopeful that we'll have that food safety bill on the Senate floor soon.
The demand is there, but we couldn't meet it all.
I commend you for your focus on local food initiatives and urge you to continue to really push that Know Your Farmer, Kn...
That extra billion dollars a year for 10 years is truly, as you said in your statement, an historic proposed investment.
We think there is a need for better data collection.
I think that they are waiting on a completion of the Department of Energy testing.
The dairy outlook is, I think, much better than it was last year when we were faced with record low prices.
One of the things we wanted to focus on was a way in which we could respond to that challenge.
We will make sure that those resources are, obviously, strategically focused and make sure that people have input as to ...
The challenges facing rural communities for decades have grown more acute, which is why the Obama administration is comm...
We see this as a critical component, as I said earlier, a critical pillar to a new revitalized rural economy.
We think there needs to be expanded research efforts on identifying pathogens that we may not even be aware of today.
one of the things we found out was that there were many communities, both rural and in inner-city America, that did not ...
What we think will happen at the end of this is that there'll be greater cooperation between State and Federal Governmen...
There is a need for better data collection so that we have a better understanding of precisely what causes the difficult...
