Mike Conaway

The United States Government must enforce our trade agreements.

Free markets are the most effective means for ordering our economy.

We need strong U.S. farm policy as a modest response to foreign competitors that cheat.

The United States Government needs to stand up to the countries that fail to abide by their commitments.

The United States Government must enforce our trade agreements.

American farmers and ranchers lose the market opportunities they were promised.

The U.S. Government needs to stand up to countries that fail to abide by their commitments.

We cannot afford to let this happen.

That symbiotic relationship between urban America and rural America has to be discovered by urban America.

I have great confidence in you and your leadership, and Tim's help, that we will get the proper oversight done.

I would hope that you would use that discretion to make this happen. It is the right thing to do.

I hope that the Members will also recognize the failure of this experiment, and work together to avoid the economic damages that will be felt by American businesses both inside and outside agriculture.

The derivatives markets grew up in response to the needs of hedgers; regulatory burdens should be both minimized and justified; and regulations should provide clarity and certainty.

The Agriculture Committee is unique in Congress for its bipartisan focus on outcomes over partisanship.

Ensuring that our nation's derivatives markets work for those who have risks to hedge is no small task.

I strongly urge Congress to enact a common-sense law that will provide farmers and consumers with the clarity and certainty needed for meaningful, voluntary food labeling.

Stigmatizing safe, proven biotechnology through patchwork state labeling mandates or even mandatory Federal labeling jeopardizes innovation.

Ensuring that farmers have a freedom of choice is not about convenience, it's about necessity.

I ask Congress to support a farmers' choice of hybrids or quality attributes, GMO presence or absence, or organic or non-organic production methods.

I believe non-GMO is a legitimate and growing market and that consumers deserve to know what that is in their food.

I ask Congress to support through adequate funding, research in non-GMO corn and soy varieties so that farmers might rapidly access this new market.

I am convinced a national non-GMO labeling program would send a clear signal to input suppliers.

I consider the tactics of anti-biotech activists who harassed you reprehensible, and I want to stress that this shameful behavior is not acceptable and should not be tolerated.

These proposals are loaded with arbitrary and inconsistent policies which would create an unmanageable situation for food producers, processors, and distributors.

Trade also helps support almost one million American jobs in production agriculture.