Austin Scott

I hope that America is watching what is happening with the food supply around the world.

Has the Biden Administration prosecuted a single case of that fraud? Have they prosecuted a single case of SNAP fraud?

I would appreciate information on how many cases have been brought for fraud.

I certainly look forward to working with you on the flexibility with our service providers, and how they can best deliver that.

I hope we can have a conversation here today, going forward, about what improvements we can make to the safety net to provide farmers more certainty.

I am disappointed in the criticism of that program from President Biden and Secretary Vilsack.

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

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.

I think kind of the frustration for everybody is how slow it has been to actually get the resources to the people to implement the technology that is needed in rural America.

I think one of the things that we can do to be more proactive in this equation is to turn back on our domestic energy production, and make us energy independent.

We are about to see people literally starving to death throughout Africa, Asia, and other lower-income parts of the world.

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

I think there is a very serious disconnect between what the Biden-Harris Administration believes is good policy and what is happening at the grocery store.

So, hopefully by the end of April then?

I think they are talking about shortages in labor at the manufacturers as well as trucking shortages and other things.

Mr. Chairman, my time has expired.

I hope you and USDA will stay on the Department of Transportation and the Department of Labor, making sure they understand that when we have to have these crop protection products in the field, putting it on 2 or 3 weeks late doesn't work.

Government policies should work for all Minnesotans, while supporting consumer choice, instead of picking winners and losers.

the economic impact of applying countervailing duties of between 30% and 70% on phosphate imports would equate to roughly $480 to $640 million in added fertilizer bills on U.S. farmers.

Prices are set essentially by the global supply and demand picture . . . we don't dictate prices.

It does bother me to see so much wildlife habitat destroyed in the name of, if you will, the environment.

I am sure you are familiar with the project in south Houston County where approximately 800 acres of forestland was clear cut.

I think that everybody on the Committee, regardless of party, is concerned about.

It is costing Americans more to get to the grocery store, as well as costing Americans to get out of the grocery store.

I do think that the Federal Government has made some of these issues worse with some of the enhanced unemployment benefits.