"Mr. Price, in your testimony you mentioned how helpful NRCS is and that the personnel there are an incredible resource for ranchers."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"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 an..."
"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..."
"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."
"Frankly, as I am preaching to the choir, I am sure farmers and ranchers are the backbone of conservation in America."
"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..."
"Your experience makes a difference, and if there are things that come to you, that is very helpful to us."
"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 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."