Mike Conaway: “Two of the pillars of our country's national security have long been a strong military and sound agricultural policy.”

The contract Borden was awarded through the Farmers to Families Food Box Program enabled us to preserve employment and benefits for our people.

It is critical and absolutely crucial that food assistance and agriculture development efforts focus on building resilience.

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.

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