Heidi Heitkamp: “I want to bring you back into this discussion, Mr. Shelanski.”

Title IX of the farm bill has been critical in supporting research and development of agricultural and forestry feedstocks used to produce bioenergy.

Farmers don't want to be paperwork people. They want to get out and farm.

I think it is important that that work is started as soon as possible, because that is where we are going to see a huge benefit, economic benefit for our ag producers.

Let's not just try and think about those past inequities and how we fixed those problems. Let's think about how we can move forward to make farming opportunities available to everyone.