Doug LaMalfa: “As a rice farmer from California, I wanted to speak with... the EQIP as a very important tool with water saving…”

I hope to work with her some more on that.

Farmers like the current conservation programs that are out there, EQIP and the others, but this new one here is going to require them to jump through hoops in order to maybe be competitive or not.

I am here today to express Delta's strong support for the HEN ACT and to thank Congresswoman Fischbach, Congressman LaMalfa, and Congressman Thompson for their leadership on this critical piece of legislation.

when this was passed back in the 1970s by Congress, if Congress would have passed a bill that is being interpreted the way it is now to stop any type of development or farming, those Members of Congress would have gotten thrown out on…