"Food is a national security issue, and I think everyone on this Committee agrees that our responsibility is to ensure that American agriculture remains strong and vibrant."
"Farmers are risk takers."
"Farmers are price takers, not price makers."
"this is something Congressman Costa has long supported"
"the pariah Putin has invaded Ukraine, and in my view, he is a war criminal and we have to support Ukraine."
"I think they need to cover all of the aspects of what American agriculture is doing."
"If we want our farmers to be able to deal with extreme weather and avoid additional regulations, we have to create incentive programs that really have some meat on the bones."
"We have to start raising the limits on eligibility for a lot of these programs on population, and we have also got to stop using this antiquated rural versus metropolitan."
"These programs are important for multiple reasons: they open and grow new markets for high quality, American food and agriculture products, they save lives, they build local agriculture and food syste..."
"we have a crisis that we are dealing with as a result of world events, and the situation in Ukraine, the horrific invasion of Ukraine by Russia is having a ripple effect across the world."
"The American Soybean Association thanks the House Agriculture Committee's Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee for the opportunity to provide written testimony."
"I have always said food is a national security issue."