Pat Roberts: “I especially liked your comment on different pathways. Everybody does not have to be on the farm.”

I do not want to get picked off by all of a sudden saying 'no' to the critical access or moving to some other thing without really knowing where we are going.

Your point is extremely valid. Other countries have beat us to the punch, and we have got to get busy.

Show me a nation that cannot feed itself, and I'll show you a nation in chaos.

I call this hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee to order.