What we need to do is be able to create additional ways in which profit centers and income sources can come from the farm.

I appreciate the support from Congress.

This Budget is not a wish list, it is a to do list.

We have identified those five additional states.

No, thank you, and I appreciate you raising the issue of childcare.

Rest assured, members of this Committee will not stop seeking answers as to why over $77.9 million in taxpayer money was illegally given and now forgiven to Planned Parenthood.

I want to be very clear. Efficiency is not an excuse for exploitation, and what is happening right now is the exploitation of smaller independent producers for the benefit of the big four.

If some packers are allowed to not participate in the cash markets, would they not be able to manipulate the regional supply of cattle by simply shifting their captive supply from one region to the next?

I will contest that there is a control on the markets through line speeds and the amount being slaughtered that can manipulate the markets.

I have heard of horror stories of children being smuggled, I have heard of the rape trees, I have heard of the cartels using children as pawns.

I find it interesting that despite these statements you still believe that lifting Title 42 is a good idea.

You do not get to create the laws.

It is clear that the cattle market is insufficient because there is no one that has access to the same information.

Here you have the big four packers that control the large packer capacity, up to maybe 80, 85 percent.

Fairness and transparency creates a sustainable agriculture supply chain, which is critical to our producers.

Innovation and supply chain is going to be critical going forward...

The combination of supply, consumer demand, pandemic disruptions and geopolitical unrest is reason enough for the inflation.

I am very concerned with the Biden Administration's regulatory agenda from bowing down to unions...