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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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

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