Jim Costa: “If we are going to continue towards the path of sustainability as a nation, we must act boldly.”

Right now, though, the CAP program is overextended and underfunded.

Frankly, you know, that trend with Russia in the lead. And I begin referring to my colleagues and to my friends in Europe as Russia today being a syndicate masquerading as a country with a mob boss called Putin, because he is a war…

But let's be frank about it. Russia today is a syndicate, I think, that's masquerading as a nuclear--a nuclear syndicate masquerading as a country with a mob boss called Putin.

I think that farmers, ranchers, dairymen and -women are critical in so many different ways, but they are also stewards of the environment.