Austin Scott

I am, and I believe the majority of my constituents are, more concerned about the price of food and energy than they are about the price of digital currencies.

I'm very concerned about the demands of India on technology transfer to companies that they own.

I am disappointed in your company. I am disappointed in Target specifically because I believe that they are the ones that have driven this initiative.

I don't mind telling you, I hope you get sued over that. I think that is illegal and unconstitutional.

The retailers are not innocent in this.

I will tell you I am very concerned about some of the conduct I am seeing from some of the people that are about to testify in the differentials and what they are paying people based on race.

I do know that the Georgia cattlemen... about them putting together some type of a co-op and the ability to slaughter and process.

The Federal Trade Commission has not been active enough in this and it has led to a significant amount of monopolization in the processing.

This should not be that hard to do. And it would benefit everybody I think to have the cash secured at the Federal Reserve.

I do think that with the volatility in commodity prices and the input prices in agriculture, I do think that we are going to need to make sure that our farmers and others are able to hedge their risk in the most efficient manner as…

I currently have a bill, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Research and Development Modernization Act (H.R. 4337).

I do think, given the volatility we have seen in the market, given what feels like a more frequent period of shocks to the system, right, whether it was COVID 2 years ago and now the Ukraine crisis, that the collateral movement and the…

If you read any of the financial news, you see the terms weaker fundamentals, yield inversion, the word recession is being used increasingly, housing bubble.

I look forward to working together to write a new farm bill that works for America's producers.

I am very concerned about the false narrative from the extreme left, and even Members of Congress that are attacking those farm families that are responsible for our food supply.

I am very disappointed in it, too, and in fact, it is outright--it is just flat out lying about the American farm families.

I think it is critical that we have an effective farm safety net, and that we have open and honest discussions about where our food supply comes from and the danger of disrupting that from some of the policies that are being promoted by…

And as our farmers' markets have closed, just like as our smaller meatpacking facilities have closed throughout Georgia, it has made it that much more difficult for our beginning, young, and small farmers.

Today, crop insurance stands as the cornerstone of the safety net for many of our producers.

If you are a beginning, young, and a small farmer and you are growing the way Ms. Asherman is, you have to have access to markets to sell your products.

97 percent of upland cotton is now insured, and it has not been that high in the past.

It has given more control of our food supply over to the largest of the corporations.

Ninety percent of our food supply in this country comes from about 12 percent of the farmers.

I think we need to work on that.

The world probably for the first time since the 1940s may watch as a ruthless individual in Vladimir Putin uses food or lack thereof as a weapon of war