Randy Feenstra

This is real. This is what Americans are facing.

Do you think they are satisfied? No.

The only way you fight inflation is increasing your interest rates.

This isn't Randy Feenstra. This is an expert.

I will contest that there is a control on the markets through line speeds and the amount being slaughtered that can manipulate the markets.

Here you have the big four packers that control the large packer capacity, up to maybe 80, 85 percent.

If some packers are allowed to not participate in the cash markets, would they not be able to manipulate the regional supply of cattle by simply shifting their captive supply from one region to the next?

I am a supporter of my Senate colleagues, Senator Grassley and Senator Fischer's Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act (S. 4030), and I intend to lead this bill with Congresswoman Axne to get it to the House Floor.

It is clear that the cattle market is insufficient because there is no one that has access to the same information.

I want to be very clear. Efficiency is not an excuse for exploitation, and what is happening right now is the exploitation of smaller independent producers for the benefit of the big four.

Fairness and transparency creates a sustainable agriculture supply chain, which is critical to our producers.

This government and this Administration are doing more to harm our producers and by extension the industry

One of the great aspects of SBIR and STTR programs are the ability to spark innovation in middle America not just on the coast.

If America wants to maintain its competitive edge in the technologies of the future, we must make sure federal investments in R&D are made across the country, not just in Silicon Valley.

With the programs set to expire at the end of September, we have to--work to do to ensure that we can continue to make these investments in small businesses that can propel American innovation moving forward.

SBIR and STTR are the Federal Government's largest source of early stage technology development and commercializing funding for small businesses.

Thank you, Chairman Stevens, and thank you for our witnesses for joining us today to share your expertise--expert testimony on Small Business Innovation and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.

But in essence it is $4 trillion then because you are putting in this line item.

I mean here is American made Iowa, Midwest biofuels, and crickets, nothing, zero in the budget.

And frankly that is because of the Trump tax cuts that happened. I think that is a fair statement.

Standards sometimes fly under the radar. But they are foundational to U.S. industry and manufacturing.

Despite the strong bipartisan support of these efforts, competitiveness legislation is currently stalled because Democratic leadership in the House and Senate has piled on partisan provisions.

We cannot allow China to dominate the international standards for technology of tomorrow.

I think this is a multiagency, you know, opportunity to work together to support, you know, the universities to be able to help more students across the country, yes.

Right. I agree 100 percent. Thank you.