Instead of a dust bowl, today's farmers and ranchers are dealing with a 1,200-year drought.

In my mind, this is a perfect example of what we are trying to get to in the conversations that we are having.

I am confident that we will come out of today's field hearings with innovative solutions for farmers and ranchers.

I want to thank Senators Bennet and Marshall for hosting this and for looking beyond bipartisan lines.

Good. Great. Well, what a fantastic panel. It is actually hard to believe that you were not preparing your testimony together.

This is a five-alarm fire, and Washington needs to treat it that way.

We have to figure out a way when margins are as thin as they are, to give people a chance to make mistakes along the way, too, and to learn from those mistakes.

I am glad to live in a country where people can speak freely.

Thank you very much to the panel for your excellent testimony.

I think we need to be willing to support experiments that are going to fail.

We can actually absolutely do a better job of incentivizing positive outcomes through the Conservation Reserve Program.