Mike Conaway: “The dairy industry needs better mechanisms for risk management--and that's on both the farmer and processor side.”

Given the effectiveness of the Food for Peace Program, I believe, and the support from stakeholders, it is clear and important that we maintain that bipartisan effort.

I am all for that, but just to have an open-ended check I don't think is necessarily a good idea.

The Farmers to Families Food Box Program (FFFBP) was the victim of a rushed process that included no engagement with current distributors and nonprofits and resulted in cherry-picked contractors who were not qualified.

I want American farmers participating in this, and American people support these programs in large part because they think it is American-grown products that are being used over there.