Austin Scott

Starving farmers can't feed starving people.

I am extremely concerned about all of our small farmers out there, the lack of the margins.

Starving farmers can't help feed hungry people.

I think that as those small businesses shut down around the country, not only has it led to a damaging consolidation of the supply chain in our food supply, but it does force a tremendous amount of additional transportation costs because…

I believe this hearing is very timely, given the current discussions taking place on the future of U.S. energy policy, and the future of U.S. agriculture.

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I believe that we can and we should do a better job of taking care of the environment.

I do believe that when we see highly productive ag land, irrigated cropland coming out of production and going into solar fields, that that is an indication that perhaps the solar subsidies are too generous.

Nobody could have prepared for this, unless they had already been through it before, and we haven't been through this before.

The ability to hand the family the box, and then to let them drive on off in their vehicle, it helped expedite the process.

I am very concerned, and I appreciate you. I appreciate your experience in agriculture. I am concerned with the USDA's economists' estimates.

I am concerned, and I would suggest that this cannot take a year the next time somebody goes through a storm the way the State of Georgia did.

Just for the Committee's knowledge, I have asked that the 2017 money be appropriated for the storms of 2018 and 2019.

I believe that I am second of the 435 Members of the House with regard to the losses from storms for 2018.

We put $3 billion in. That $3 billion was for the 2018 storms.

For more than 24 million Americans who live in rural communities, as I do, that do not have broadband Internet access and lack the infrastructure for reliable and affordable connection, having reliable, affordable broadband is not about…

We can do a better job, and we have to do a better job, because we are losing our population in rural America.

As someone who--from Tift County, we are very fortunate to have a quality medical community there.

It is extremely important to us and to the industries that try to operate in areas like those that I live in with my family.

I want to comment on Mr. Hurst's answer to Mrs. Hartzler's question. The industry has the ability to provide shape file mapping today to the FCC, and if the FCC would begin to use that and they could use it virtually immediately.

We need our rural communities to have a seat at the table as we look at the budget.

Doctor, you have a relationship with Tift Regional Hospital where my father is a physician. I know I have talked with him many times in the past, him as an orthopedic surgeon and trauma surgeon. Just the ability in rural America for a…

It takes money. It takes priority of funding.

I would add to the fact that the machinery today is much more complicated than it was in the past, and if you have a problem, my tractor's instruction manual is literally on my iPhone. But if I don't have access to the Internet, I can't…

The access to immediately know where that patient needs to go in those situations it truly is the difference in life and death.