Jim Costa: “But, politically, the thing that we do hear is that we blame a certain region of the state...”

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.

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.

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.