Mike Conaway

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

It is imperative that we work to reduce and eliminate international barriers to trade.

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

America's farmers and ranchers are the most productive in the world.

I'm fearful the proposed rule, if finalized without substantial change, will result in cattle grazing becoming a discharge activity subject to legal liability under the Clean Water Act.

It is appalling the agencies could assert that it will not have a 'significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.'

Farmers respond to carrots not the stick. If you give us the tools to achieve improved water quality, we will be receptive to that and work together.

I would argue that this takes us backwards, because a one-size-fits-all policy out of Washington, D.C., is best regulated at the state and local level.

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