Jim Costa: “Nobody does it better than American agriculture, and that is the bottom line.”

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…

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.

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