We also need to review the needs for upgrading and investing in long outdated infrastructure in rural America.

The Biden Administration has willfully chosen to take millions of barrels of oil from the global supply.

Unfortunately, there is little we can do about Putin's reckless criminal adventurism, his genocide that he is conducting on a peaceful country.

Without crop insurance, lenders would not be able to provide the levels of credit to the farmers necessary to operate a farm in today's high-cost environment.

I believe the FCC needs adult supervision and needs supervision of people that understand rural America.

Moving on to say this hearing is long overdue is an understatement, so I am so glad we are all here today.

The work of Rural Development is vital to ensure that our rural communities have the resources they need to become resilient.

To say I disagree with those calls is an understatement.

As we work towards the 2023 Farm Bill, we know that we have a lot of responsibility and that means doing great oversight and learning the lessons of what we were able to put into what looks like a very successful 2018 Farm Bill.

Nutrition is incredibly--Title IV of the farm bill, the Nutrition Title is a very important title, as important as any other title in the farm bill.

I want to make sure they are pathways to opportunity, meeting the immediate nutritional needs of these families who find themselves usually temporarily in financial distress.

Farmers have been asking for a national hearing on milk pricing, but the Secretary of Agriculture was quoted in a Brownfield interview earlier this month saying dairy stakeholders will have to all agree on one dairy pricing plan before…