Bobby Rush: “I want to thank our witnesses for their participation in today's hearing, and I look forward to identifying concrete…”

I certainly want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this outstanding hearing this morning.

I am extremely interested in member cooperatives, and I am looking forward to ways to expand ag co-ops to urban areas.

During the hearing, I asked what I thought was a straightforward question: what policies would our expert panel made up of commodity group witnesses recommend to rectify both the historic and current discrimination too often faced by…

We on the Agriculture Committee have a special and unique mission to try to help solve the problem of Black farmers in our nation.