Mike Bost

Our retaliatory agricultural tariffs against American exports, I believe, are the main driver of our farm surpluses and our low prices here in America.

So we have a banking crisis, and we have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ratcheting down lending standards, ratcheting down bank flexibility at a time when we can least afford it.

I am taking on more debt than I had last year, not digging out, digging in, and I hear from many of my good friends, long-term farm families around the Modesto, California, area in the central San Joaquin Valley, as well as banks, that we…

I urge this committee to take decisive action.

Our Nation's railroad network used to be the crowning achievement of American industry.

How many more residents need to be displaced? How many more people need to lose their lives before we say enough is enough?

The cost of inaction is way too high.

We must take decisive action to ensure the safety and security of this Nation's rail networks by passing H.R. 8996.

I will tell anybody that farmers are the best environmentalists that this country has.

Under this Administration the EPA has adopted the mindset of dictating rather than working collaboratively.

Food security is national security, and several have said that today.

Farmers in southern Illinois have tried to get the Federal Government to give an answer, which they don't give, or when they do give, it is one side and then they flip back.

This situation is going to get much more urgent for farmers. They need to get tools in a timely fashion.

It is really no secret that the EPA pesticide review process is broken, and it has gotten worse in recent years.

It is really disappointing that Administrator Regan wouldn't give Congress the same respect.

Our farmers deserve an Administration that works with them, not against them.

I do wish that the EPA themselves were here, and the reason being is because there is, like all government agencies, they are supposed to be here to help, not to hinder.

If we say it has been sloppy at best is the way we can describe it.

So, when you find that the vast majority of our crops grown in this country do use some level of weed control or insect control in order to be viable, then we have to acknowledge that, or we are not going to be the breadbasket for the…

So, you would end up using more land to grow the same amount of crop at less profit per acre, I know profit is a dirty word in some places around here, but if you are not making a living, if you are not in the black, then you are not going…

We need guardrails, but we don't need roadblocks.

Our fear is that the local lending institution is going to call their notes due, and it is going to put them out of business.

Simply put, the EPA under the Biden Administration does not understand American agriculture or rural America.

I would argue the EPA's approach to punishing American farmers and ranchers through regulation under this Administration is also unprecedented.

This is why I extended an invitation last December for Administrator Regan to reappear before the Committee.