02/24/2016
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"This hearing of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry, entitled, The Benefits of Promoting Soil Health in Agriculture and Rural America, will come to order."
"I have said--long said that farmers are the original environmentalists."
"We owe it to future generations to do what we can today, and understand and recognize the importance of healthy soil."
"I have heard healthy soils described as harvesting sunlight, and using the natural processes of photosynthesis."