"I really appreciate having this hearing. I appreciate us getting started on the farm bill."
"I do miss him. Aside from that, Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member, I really appreciate having this hearing."
"As we look at ARC, and the PLC, and otherwise relatively successful programs, do you feel that the reference prices have adequately kept up with the market trends?"
"As we move into the new farm bill, we want to help forge solutions to these problems."
"We want to have policies in place that work for everybody--specialty crops, and for all of our farmers."
"But, I think we are all concerned about the Ukraine. We also have tremendous respect for their extraordinary courage to defend their homeland."
"I think we need a pathway through the system to approve products like that, maybe through USDA rather than FDA so that it is not considered an antibiotic or something like that, but rather a feed ingr..."
"I really see biotechnology as a major factor in what happens in agriculture as we try to produce the food and fiber for our ever-increasingly hungry world."
"We do believe that if we are going to meet the challenges that we have in front of us with the criteria that we have laid out in terms of helping producers, that technology and research are going to b..."
"Biotechnology and research is key to identifying new climate smart practices that are effective."
"One specific example I've spoken of many times, is the capability we already have for animal feed ingredients that improve the sustainability and enteric emissions of livestock."
"We need that research and an expedited regulatory approval process to support farmers' and ranchers' access to such technological innovations."