Sanford Bishop: “Your excellent and frank testimony seems to raise at least a flashing yellow light with respect to our rural economy.”

According to the February 2024 farm income forecast, government payments such as the conservation payments near a margin curve, which are the farm bill commodity payments and the supplemental disaster relief are forecast to fall $10.2…

Let's stop playing politics, and just face reality, and let us move ahead as we should.

They cut SNAP by 20 percent in the big, ugly bill this summer, dismantled and defunded Federal programs, fired Federal workers, and illegally ignored court orders. This bill fails to address the healthcare crisis, and bipartisan outrage…

I support passage of this six- bill package, including the section on Agriculture-Rural Development- FDA. The ag bill affects the lives of every single American--rural, urban, and suburban--every single day and ensures that Americans have…