Doug LaMalfa: “The 2018 Farm Bill offered important environmental and resource benefits through USDA's suite of voluntary…”

But it shouldn't require you having to come hat in hand to this place and ask a Congress Member to run a bill so you can purchase a piece of land that might be surplus already to the government.

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…

I can cite one example in my own district. Elderberry bushes are required to be basically untouched because an elderberry beetle may come along.

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.