We need to make sure that we are developing markets and that we are developing a marketplace that creates that future for beginning farmers.

Small towns and rural places are creative, entrepreneurial, diverse, and wonderful places to live and to work and to raise a family.

Hearing from you is extremely important. As the people closest to the work, you know best what is working and what can be improved.

The Title I reference prices do not match up with the cost of that production. It is really not a true safety net.

If you do not have a safe, affordable place to live, nothing else in your life works, not your job, or your education, or your health.

Small towns and rural places are creative, entrepreneurial, diverse, and wonderful places to live and to work and to raise a family.

We held two hearings together in this Subcommittee, and then we also sought comments from the public.

Our working lands programs are oversubscribed.

We have a serious shortage of housing in this country, especially in rural communities.

I would also like to thank Senator Rounds for his partnership on the Rural Housing Reform legislation that we announced this morning.

We have got to make sure that crop insurance stays intact, and we need to broaden it for those specialty crops.

The Title I reference prices do not match up with the cost of that production. It is really not a true safety net.

Everybody has been saying today that everything is local, and one size does not fit all, and those FSA offices need to support that.

The biggest challenge young people have getting into agriculture is availability of land and availability of credit.

The average age of farmers in this country is going up, not down.

I know that all members of this Committee share the goal of passing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization.

We have got to find some way to make sure that we can draw young people back to this industry.

We need to protect our small farmers, our large farmers, and every farmer in between.