Jim Costa: “It is vitally important that we have those funds to keep opening markets because that is the future.”

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

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 China is watching what we're doing in Ukraine just as Russia is trying to determine what is the resolve of the United States.

I think we all pray that we can come together on a farm bill before the end of the year.