Cindy Axne: “I hope we can get that done quickly so that we don't have a 20-day gap here where millions of people are going to get…”

While Congress cannot protect cattle producers and their businesses from being shunned by packers for testifying, Members of this Committee certainly shouldn't facilitate or allow packers to intimidate witnesses prior to a hearing.

At the very first hearing we held within the Committee in this Congress, we discussed the increased unpredictability and devastating effects that climate change poses.

Today, consumers are literally paying more for their beef, producers are receiving less for their cattle, and yet your four companies' net incomes have reached record highs.

Without some action, researchers expect crop yields to decline by the end of the century due to climate change.