What can be done or is actively being done to help the families have a better, more streamlined process when tragedies like this occur?

It is up to us as Congress to allow you the opportunity and the resources to fully investigate why these accidents have occurred.

We want to provide you those resources, and we want to do a better job on our end.

This hearing continues our series where each of the six Subcommittees is looking at all aspects of the current and the next farm bill.

Thank you Chairman Davis and Ranking Member Lujan Grisham for the opportunity to provide supplemental comments for the record of the March 9 hearing.

The sheer diversity of the category, ranging from fruits and vegetables, to tree nuts, nursery crops, and floriculture, makes the task of developing specialty crop policies particularly challenging.

This is my third listening session out of the five, and this is an opportunity for us to sit back and understand what it means to be involved in agriculture.

it's vital that we invest in public agricultural research. Organic agriculture is the future of American agriculture and we need more research for organic farming.

I'm excited to be here. It's great to be able to serve on the Agriculture Committee with Chairman Conaway and Ranking Member Peterson.

What he constantly reminds us of, from his perch in his chair, is that agriculture is different everywhere you are.

I'm Rodney Davis from central Illinois. We actually do not have many speciality crops in the 14 counties that I serve.