We need to consider what the needs are for our ag and forestry sectors as well as our rural small businesses in terms of their potential role in producing renewable energy.

Farm bill programs represent an important public-private partnership that enables producers to provide these public benefits while remaining economically viable.

Last year, I introduced with the support of colleagues the SUSTAINS Act (H.R. 2606), which would allow for third parties, including corporations and businesses of all sizes...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and good morning to our witnesses...

First, I want to remind the Committee we are again battling record levels of inflation.

To say I disagree with those calls is an understatement.

Policies that allow farms to be passed onto next generations of farmers affordably, allow our farmers to remain in business through down economic years and natural disasters, and help mitigate risk in one of the riskiest businesses in the…

The farming safety net is vital in not only keeping farmers employed on their farms that have often times been in the family for multiple generations, but in ensuring that the United States has the most secure, safe, and affordable food…

As this Committee discusses conservation and climate programs, it is important to understand that hindering the U.S. wheat farmer's ability to produce their products, which have long been grown under climate-smart practices that leave the…

We also need to review the needs for upgrading and investing in long outdated infrastructure in rural America.

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

Putin's war in Ukraine is removing millions of barrels of oil from the global supply, which is impacting the prices that consumers are paying at the pump and driving up inflation.