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

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.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership on this issue. If there is anyone that should be leading this discussion, it should be somebody whose career was as a professionally trained forester who actually knows this topic…

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 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.

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.

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