So in the supplemental disaster package that's being written currently, are there--is there enough flexibility in this regard to potentially help you to help with the problem of onsite grain storage that's been lost?

Do you think that the FDA is the proper regulatory authority in this regard particularly in response to your thoughtful response regarding the ethics?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, again for calling this important hearing.

We have something exciting going on, actually, in the agricultural family.

I think you are not in front of this dynamic yet, that might be an important on-ramp to leveraging the Farm Credit System.

Regarding beginning farmers and ranchers as well as small farmers, you have credit available as part of your portfolio to persons in this category.

Many of us receive complaints from the commercial banking sector that the Farm Credit System has an unfair advantage.

I do not want to see subsidies or bailouts for farmers.

We are hopeful that Congress can move quickly to pass a disaster supplemental for all of the 2018 and 2019 disasters in order to reassure lenders that the Federal Government is there to lend a helping hand.

Our farmers, ranchers, and producers face a number of threats to their livelihoods, from low commodity prices and tight margins to the externalities born of hard but necessary trade negotiations as well as the problem of natural disasters.

I am eager to get an update on the Farm Credit System and how it continues to play a critical role in providing stable and dependable sources of financial credit for, as the chairman mentioned, the hard-working men and women of rural…

I may bring this up with the next panel, but you are intimately familiar with what has happened to us back home in the Midwest.

Many outside the agricultural community have little familiarity with what you all do and how it plays a critical role in ensuring that America has among the lowest per capita grocery prices in the world.

Only the second time, as I understand it, before the subcommittee in the last 21 years.

We have received stacks and stacks and stacks of support letters from Senators, Members of Congress, governors, community leaders, business leaders, associations, and local communities.

We have consistently engaged and answered questions as they have come before us.

Thank you very much for convening this very important discussion and hearing today.

the idea, you are exactly right, of seeing or hearing about a child going to bed hungry in America is heart wrenching, given our abundance and largesse