Strong agriculture equals strong rural communities equals just more opportunity, flat out, in small towns and rural places.
Thank you so much to you and your staff for working together with us on today's hearing.
The average age of farmers in this country is going up, not down.
Everybody has been saying today that everything is local, and one size does not fit all, and those FSA offices need to support that.
We have got to find some way to make sure that we can draw young people back to this industry.
Our working lands programs are oversubscribed.
I would also like to thank Senator Rounds for his partnership on the Rural Housing Reform legislation that we announced this morning.
Hearing from you is extremely important. As the people closest to the work, you know best what is working and what can be improved.
We held two hearings together in this Subcommittee, and then we also sought comments from the public.
It assures our American people that they are going to have their pantries available, food to fill their pantries, at a reasonable cost.