Rick Allen

Thank you, Madam Chair. And good morning, everyone. It is my pleasure to introduce my constituent and friend Lee Cromley.

The volatility is very difficult.

Let's have a well-thought-out plan where farm families have the opportunity to do what we do best, and that is produce the best crops in the world.

I think uncertainty and volatility are probably words that would describe the countryside right now.

We can better shape.

The two ways to tackle that is discontinue the increase in money supply and quit spending government money.

There is not a lot in the farm bill to deal with this other than you just hope that commodity prices will keep pace with the inflation.

We just saw yesterday where the June CPI inflation report shows about a 9.1 percent increase.

What barriers can we remove by legislation to make this happen and get this job done?

The dairy industry is the fundamental economic engine of food and our production, and we have this great opportunity, this great asset, to export around the country, and around the world.

I would hate to see an increased consolidation pace because of the additional sustainability standards.

What do you all think needs to be done in this country right now to get us right side up? Because, what we are doing right now is unsustainable, particularly when you are talking about the farm bill, and funding some of these input costs…

Frankly, I hear this over and over again in the 12th District of Georgia, and we can't anticipate a lot of these things in writing the new farm bill because the last time we have had this kind of inflation, and supply chain issues, and…

Our first priority is what we have been in here talking about.

This country offers more than that.

We need to be looking at what can we do in order to correct the course of the policies we have seen over the past couple of years that lead people into those poverty circumstances.

I would say that this is really an investment in your local agriculture, which is really a homeland security issue as well.

Crop protection tools that farmers rely on are under assault from the left wing enviro-activist.

Those increases of 104.8 percent and 150.5 percent respectively would be higher had the Governor of the State of Georgia not removed Georgia's tax on diesel.

I don't know about the rest of the country, but in the 12th District of Georgia, during the pandemic, our children got breakfast, lunch, and a snack each day through our school nutrition programs.

We have to be very focused. Seeing title IV, it will cost roughly about $1 trillion over the next 10 years.

I think it is really good to formalize, as the GAO noted, I think it is very important.

I just think we are a government together. It is not government in D.C. It is we the people.

We need to reform this program so that it serves its original intended purposes.

How are we going to fix the problem if we don't do it legislatively?