USDA understands the need for a strong labor pool for farmers.

What is this going to do to our ability to feed people?

It establishes research centers at our American land-grant institutions across the nation with a purpose of researching physical and biological cyber threats to American agriculture.

I think most farmers, including myself, would like to find a different path and, quite frankly, we call it hogwash.

Thank you to the Secretary. I had just a month ago best-of-breed growers in my district...

If all things were equal, farmers would rather plant corn than put a solar panel on the best farm ground in the world.

My bipartisan bill, Advancing Research on Agricultural Climate Impacts Act of 2023 (H.R. 5160), or ARACI, will help the USDA develop a standardized methodology to monitor and inventory regional soil carbon.

There is no other country in the world that would spend billions of dollars that have been invested in the improvement of these dams which would provide affordable, reliable electricity, irrigation for productive farm ground, feeding millions, flood control to protect local communities, locks for the transportation of products that we export around the world, and, yes, fish passage both upstream and downstream to protect fisheries, and then even have a conversation or consider destroying all of that.

This important legislation is critical to ensuring safe and effective drugs for our Nation's livestock industry and farm animals for the next 5 years.

We must ensure that U.S. businesses increase their exports of goods, services, and agricultural products.

NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Brian T. Baenig, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, vice Krysta Harden.

Our top development priority in Afghanistan will from here forward be agriculture.

We're grateful for a harvest big enough to feed us all and millions more.

The Agreement will generate export opportunities for U.S. companies, farmers, and ranchers.

For too many decades, African-American farmers have labored in America's fields without a true share of this Nation's agricultural prosperity.

My administration has worked hard to improve the condition of the black farmer and to mend the relationship between black farmers and the USDA.

I call upon all Americans, in rural and urban communities alike, to join in recognizing the achievements of all those who work together to promote America's agricultural abundance.

The U.S. is the largest and most efficient agricultural producer in the world.