John Boozman

The 2023 Farm Bill must provide our producers with the risk management tools required to farm and ranch in this new reality.

The current safety net is frayed and is in dire need of meaningful reinforcement.

Seventy billion dollars is a huge amount of money, and we can be proud that we are doing that.

Can you commit to making sure that any efforts to expand the Crop Insurance Programs are science-based, peer-reviewed, and protect the integrity of the program?

The delay in the ad hoc support resulted in assistance arriving years after the disaster occurred.

The reality suggests the existing safety nets need to be enhanced.

Congress has stepped up, but as you know that is a difficult process.

A newly reinforced safety net is essential if the United States would like our farmers and ranchers to continue to produce the most abundant, most affordable, and safest food supply in the world.

Our producers are one trade war, one natural disaster or market downturn, or geopolitical conflict away from having to sell the farm.

The current safety net is frayed and is in dire need of meaningful reinforcement.

The 2023 Farm Bill must provide our producers with the risk management tools required to farm and ranch in this new reality.

The current safety net is frayed and is in dire need of meaningful reinforcement.

Can you commit to making sure that any efforts to expand the Crop Insurance Programs are science-based, peer-reviewed, and protect the integrity of the program?

Congress has stepped up, but as you know that is a difficult process.

A newly reinforced safety net is essential if the United States would like our farmers and ranchers to continue to produce the most abundant, most affordable, and safest food supply in the world.

Our producers are one trade war, one natural disaster or market downturn, or geopolitical conflict away from having to sell the farm.

Seventy billion dollars is a huge amount of money, and we can be proud that we are doing that.

The reality suggests the existing safety nets need to be enhanced.

The 2023 Farm Bill must provide our producers with the risk management tools required to farm and ranch in this new reality.

What steps do we need to take to actually get this done so that we can get poultry from these areas back in China and other countries?

How can we hold them accountable?

This has really been an excellent hearing, and hopefully it is just the example of the hearings we are going to have in the future.

I also want to reiterate my concerns with Mexico's efforts to restrict genetically engineered corn imports, which would threaten food security and stifle ag biotech innovation that benefits both the United States and Mexico.

I hope you and USTR ag chief and chief negotiator McKalip's recent confirmations are a turning point for this Administration when it comes to ag trade.

I believe that together we will be able to craft the policies needed to maintain the world's safest, most abundant, and most affordable food supply while protecting the land, water, air, wildlife and rural communities that we all care…