Jim Costa: “Did all of your associations support the TPP agreement that we had been working on?”

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.

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…

Food 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.