to provide proper oversight, the Committee needs regular updates on how and where the funds provided to USDA are being spent.

Markets for wood projects are critical. They are crucial to keeping our forests healthy and provide significant economic benefits to our rural communities.

I view this reauthorization of the farm bill as an opportunity to renew our commitment to working lands conservation.

we would not have gotten any of it done without you all.

Washington prioritizing a limited set of practices or natural resource concerns would undermine the continued success of the USDA's voluntary conservation programs.

I want to raise a concern that I have with Executive Order 14072, which directs the Forest Service to define and protect old-growth forests.

we would not have gotten any of it done without you all.

the Inflation Reduction Act prioritized climate and carbon sequestration in the conservation programs, I think neglecting maybe some important resource concerns regarding other things.

I fear that the Administration has asked USDA to take on an impossible task that will only end up in litigation.

I think I can speak on behalf of myself and Senator Stabenow. I really appreciate you all in the sense that you are very close to the people that you serve.

Producers in Arkansas provide winter habitat in rice fields for migrating waterfowl.