Jim Costa: “I hope that the Rural Utilities Service has an update for us on how the applications are progressing”

Food is a national security issue.

The challenges of coming together with local, state, and Federal policy to ensure that agriculture remains what it is, which is a national security issue.

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

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