Richard M. Nolan: “It was in 1971 that President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer.”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to thank the panel. It has been very revealing how important technology is for agriculture and the future of agriculture, and our ability to feed the world and to continue to grow and prosper.

It is imperative that Congress not lose its sense of urgency as we push toward consolidation and reform.

I would like to see it become a national priority, because it is a national emergency. Every day 361,000 people die.

The economy of the Great Lakes, if it were a nation by itself, would be the fourth most powerful economic nation in the world.