While Dr. Humiston stated that only two percent of the California income is agriculture, in my district agriculture represents 60 percent of our economy.
we have shifted many of our workers from front offices to back offices, where they are doing much more eligibility-relat...
We literally have mountains of grain and nowhere to go with them.
I can only imagine, I have been in enough countries representing farmers through U.S. Wheat Associates.
If we give you a dollar, how much of it is actually being spent on food by the person?
Kansas has the fastest grown dairy herd in the country, and I don't understand how we could have food insecurity issues ...
What are we doing to help reach preschool kids and the weekend kids?
I want to acknowledge Zippy Duvall out here in the audience.
I am confident that today you will hear from folks in the trenches of this current economic downturn.
We cannot make farm policy in a vacuum.
A robust agricultural trade agenda would work hand-in-hand with our safety net programs to provide revenue from the mark...