Glenn Thompson

For decades, we have witnessed timber harvest decline on National Forest lands, which undermines forest health, rural jobs, and the local economy.

It is my hope that this Subcommittee can shine a brighter spotlight on the needs of the forest sector.

Today's hearing marks the first event of the newly formed Forestry Subcommittee.

Operation Urban Justice, a large-scale law enforcement operation this week, has resulted in the arrest of 15 individuals...

We are losing a dairy farmer every single day. That is 365 this year and next year.

Small farmers can't always take on the risks that large farms can when adapting new practices

Those things are all fixable. They are just bad policy that has come out of out of Washington.

American agriculture is--well, that is something I think all the Members of this Committee are very passionate about, but it is--and there are a lot of similarities, right, when you walk from one farm to another, different parts of…

We have to make available all the tools in the toolbox and that prescribing or endorsing certain practices or systems like regenerative organic agriculture in a silo, alone, could stifle research, technology, and innovation of future…

In my home state, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is one of the top ten cover crop states--excuse me--in the United States, there has been a 33 percent increase in cover crop use since 2012, which is outstanding.

There are other factors that go into productivity, and productivity is important.

I am not going to sit idly as we let decades of real bipartisan progress be turned on its head to satisfy people who at their core think agriculture is a blight on the landscape.

The European Union's Farm-to-Fork Initiative has shown that tying food policy to climate policy is harmful to food production and economic viability for all.

I think it is necessary to make the distinction that organic agriculture production is not the only means of production that promotes and maintains soil health.

Encouraging soil health and responsible conservation practices in agriculture has been a central goal and a priority supported by Congress since the 1930s and certainly a priority of mine since coming to Congress.

We are so honored and pleased to have you on the Agriculture Committee.

Some want you to believe that regenerative agriculture is somehow revolutionary and it is very positive, but soil health has been a fundamental tenant of the farm bill conservation programs from their very inception.

These tools that we provide are why American farmers are really the climate heroes around the world.

Having represented now for some time the Pennsylvania 15th, it was the 5th district before that, but it is the district that has more abandoned mine sites than the other 434 districts added together, so that is that is a very exciting…

I am particularly interested in the work that Ecofibre is doing to make hemp a natural climate solution.

These two agencies have an integral role related to both regulation and oversight of the hemp program, and without them, we are missing a piece of the puzzle.

I am disappointed we are having another hearing where USDA--and in this case the FDA too--are missing in action, absent without leave, from the discussion.

I think this is our first hearing on this commodity, which is amazing, given the work that we did laying the foundation in the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills, so long overdue, and thank you to both of you for your leadership on this.

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