Precision agriculture has increased productivity and in my own experience growing rice with fewer inputs required on our land, water savings, less fertilizer, less pesticides needed.

We need real solutions. We have a treasure. We have a national treasure in the San Joaquin Valley, and to see it sit idle because of a lack of water is wrong.

Indeed, rapid advances in technology over the last several years--I would say several decades--has made precision agriculture more important because of the benefits it will provide.

We have the opportunity to raise Shasta Dam 18, 600,000 more acre feet on those years that it would fill.

We are here, of course, as you mentioned, to examine the benefits of precision agriculture on conservation, which is indeed one of the many tools we have at our disposal to help improve conservation practices on farms and ranches.

The issue in northern California has been pretty tough the last couple years, starting with the Oroville Dam...

We need much more action by the Forest Service to be inclined to do more on forest management.

But it sounds like there is a big push to really eviscerate those services.

The Governor has effectively--and the legislature--has effectively banned my constituents from making a choice, choice for these consumers, and choice for the drivers themselves that want to be--don't want to be employees, rather than be…

dozens of infrastructure projects are ready for implementation, but require the necessary funding.

the record of today's hearing will remain open for 10 calendar days to receive additional material.

A significant portion of the backlog, nearly 75 percent, is maintenance of the 370,000 mile road system within our forests.