I am proud of our dairy industry for rising to the unprecedented challenges.

Another area I feel strongly that our farmers and ranchers stand the opportunity to find benefit for their bottom line as well as their sustainability efforts are through bioenergy technologies that the 2018 Farm Bill helped pave the way…

Section 32 bonus buys are one of the most important tools in the toolbox to help specialty growers suffering from market imbalances.

One program that has proven to be effective is the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.

Another important program authorized in the Horticulture Title is the Plant Pest and Disease Management and Disaster Prevention Program.

Deputy Under Secretary Dean, the Committee appreciates your response regarding the use of MyPlate and SNAP-Ed as educational opportunities which empower customers to purchase all forms of produce, specifically frozen.

I really see biotechnology as a major factor in what happens in agriculture as we try to produce the food and fiber for our ever-increasingly hungry world.

I firmly believe the extraordinary achievements in biotechnology over the past several decades have given our farmers and ranchers innovative tools to produce higher yields with less inputs as well.

There is strong evidence that SNAP is working well, but there are certainly parts of the program that could be improved.

We need that research and an expedited regulatory approval process to support farmers' and ranchers' access to such technological innovations.

we were intentional in selecting our witnesses for our stakeholder panel today from multiple regions across the country, because this will provide us with the diversity of views.

the loss of the smaller farms is having an impact across our rural communities. Human loss, as well as drastic economic loss.

I do miss him. Aside from that, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member, I really appreciate having this hearing.

I think this is the real value of the McGovern-Dole initiative, and the more we can do, the better it is.

I think there needs to be an increase or a proportion of what goes to SNAP should come a higher proportion to the Tribes.

The Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Development Program has been critically important in recognizing--and we just had a question about the veterans--recognizing that there are many who are serving in the military who returned to their…

It is no accident that American agriculture set record exports in 2021 despite the supply chain logistics...

I will not prioritize climate over every other natural resource concern, period.