We did quite a bit in the last farm bill on organics.

Pat and I may not always agree on everything in agriculture, but this is one thing we do agree on, in lockstep, on crop insurance.

Thank you very much, Senator Conrad.

Organics is. We are finding a lot of young people in Iowa now with just a few acres able to grow organics and sell them at premium prices.

The Malthusian's have always been wrong. We have always risen to all of those challenges.

If I am confirmed, the message will be clear. Discrimination in any form will not be tolerated in this Department.

I think we must be--I think we are No. 2 now in the Nation. I think, if I am not mistaken, in the number of organic farms.

We want to make sure that Agriculture gets its rightful place in the ability to sequester carbon.

I think we all pretty much basically agree on crop insurance here.

I am very supportive of how you have reformulated your products there and what we can do.

Sound nutrition is indispensable to preventing illness and disease and helping Americans lead healthier and longer lives and reduce health care costs.

If we get our kids started early in eating well and getting the right nutritious foods, they are just going to have healthier lives later on.

How do you overcome the resistance, and what was that like, and second, address yourself again to the idea of whether we should just leave this to States and local jurisdictions or whether we should extend the nutritional guidelines to all…

I just find it odd that because a school board decides to let kids go off the campus, that somehow we have to permit junk food to be allowed on the campus.

I have a problem with that. When I heard that, I thought, well, that means that if I buy something, one-third of that can be sugar.

They don't much care what comes out, they just like putting money in them.

As Congress and the administration move forward with health reform this year, the ADA believes that establishing nutrition standards is a part of health reform and is directly connected to prevention.

Let us provide the nutrient richness of flavored milks in the school environment, get the kids to drink more milk.