We've expressed the need to address the following primary challenges: lack of price discovery and transparency, meatpacking industry consolidation leading to fewer competitors, captive supply, and price manipulation.

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.

Various Members of Congress, including Reps. Cindy Axne (IA-03) and Randy Feenstra (IA-04), have responded by introducing legislation and holding various hearings, yet nothing has come to fruition.

We support allowing interstate sales of state-inspected meat and providing appropriate regulatory flexibility that reflects the operating conditions in small and very small facilities.

I really appreciate your role in raising these issues, and look forward to continuing to work with you and your team to make sure that we are addressing these concerns.

getting this done is so important. Iowa falls bottom of the barrel when it comes to connectivity

I know I am in a rural community when I am talking to a group of people who care deeply about their home but none of them are grant writers.

Our family farmers are also a key part of the solution, and they have been champions of conservation and stewards of their land for generations.

the updated Thrifty Food Plan, while modest, is estimated to lift about 2.4 million Americans, including more than a million children, out of poverty this year.

As this Committee continues its work on reviewing the 2018 Farm Bill in preparation for next year, it is clear to me that we need strong investment in conservation and renewable energy in order to meet the ever-increasing challenge of…

I am concerned, however, with how food-insecure families will manage as these pandemic-related emergency allotments for SNAP expire.