Can you commit today that you are going to work on that and make sure that we are getting the data that we need?

making healthful school meals accessible to low-income families is a priority for your agency

There are places where we want to keep roads open----

Under Secretary Bonnie, I know that you are well aware, and so is the whole Committee, that Congress, unfortunately, is a bit gridlocked on the Forest Service wildfire budget situation.

we have a terrible end result. We have people drinking unsafe water.

what we all want is good and effective government. And for me it is irrelevant whether that good and effective protective government is at the Federal level, at the State level, or the local level.

there is a serious critical difference between the response of Governor Snyder and the response of Governor Kasich.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to the panel. We really appreciate your level of expertise and participation in these hearings so that we can better navigate, as a Committee, how we support you and support USDA to make a difference.

Ms. Lujan Grisham, as you mentioned with the acequias, I am very happy to point out one of the examples of a project we already have rolling out here is the Acequias De Las Joyas.

I appreciate the panel, and I really appreciate the closing sentiments and your allowance of extra time to talk about the power of learning from our mistakes, not being so risk-adverse, and to taking every opportunity to collaborate and…

I appreciate that. I agree with you that that sort of education and technical assistance needs to be driven back down to the local level and make that available.

This is exactly what I want to hear, although I would encourage you to work with all Federal agencies...

Your experience makes a difference, and if there are things that come to you, that is very helpful to us.

I really appreciate that, and I am hoping for the same kind of environment on looking at ways to use our agro-ecosystems to capture atmospheric carbon.

We all have pressure about making sure we are doing the right thing for those species, and we are supporting and advocating for our producers and our ranchers and farmers.

Mr. Price, in your testimony you mentioned how helpful NRCS is and that the personnel there are an incredible resource for ranchers.

I have also heard that some producers may get a grant, so they might be smaller and still manage to get a grant, but because there is no technical assistance components to those grants, it can be very difficult for them to successfully…

Frankly, as I am preaching to the choir, I am sure farmers and ranchers are the backbone of conservation in America.

Instead of any kind of top down approach, it is really great to be able to engage the people who are doing the work.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I haven't gotten any Federal support to deal with that, and the state support is gone.

I want to work with every stakeholder and every policymaker to make sure that New Mexico gets what it needs to end this persistent poverty in our rural and frontier areas.

I hope, reach a favorable decision to help New Mexico's dairy producers, given our dairy loss related to the huge snowstorm.

I hope we don't have it too soon, but a spring runoff, which means that all that sediment gets moved again.

Stormwater regulation needs to have the flexibility to make sure that local managers can suggest alternatives that make sense for an arid region.