"I urge this committee to take decisive action."
"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 Joa..."
"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."
"Our retaliatory agricultural tariffs against American exports, I believe, are the main driver of our farm surpluses and our low prices here in America."
"The farm bill will not be passed in time to rescue this, I am sorry to say."
"I am looking for support for the MFRATS, Market Facilitation Retaliatory Ag Tariffs Supplement, and let's make no question about this. We are taking the gloves off."
"The Biden Administration's attacks on American agriculture do not stop at crop protection tools."
"This is why I extended an invitation last December for Administrator Regan to reappear before the Committee."
"I would argue the EPA's approach to punishing American farmers and ranchers through regulation under this Administration is also unprecedented."
"Simply put, the EPA under the Biden Administration does not understand American agriculture or rural America."
"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 g..."
"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 n..."