Mike Conaway

What we desperately need are programs that mitigate risk for entrepreneurial activities that allow farmers to tap into new markets and generate more profit.

Why wouldn't anybody who eats in America be in favor of a farm bill that delivers in that deal?

You can like the current farm policy or you can hate the current farm policy, but it delivers the most affordable food supply.

The family I am going to have in the front of my mind is a single mom struggling to make ends meet.

To give up U.S. sugar policy without any concessions from foreign subsidizers would be economic suicide for American sugar farmers.

These types of check-off programs should continue and should not be hamstrung by unnecessary legislative or regulatory provisions.

We have to make sure our farm industry is healthy, but at the same time, we are getting taken advantage of by the rest of the world

At the end of each one of these policies are people that are responsible for providing the safest, most abundant, most affordable food supply in the world.

The current situation in the countryside provides a textbook example for why we have farm bills in the first place.

This Committee is deeply committed to trying to address and fix the problem that has emerged out of the 2014 Farm Bill.

I am deeply troubled by CBO's scoring of what appears to be a relatively straightforward change to the program.

We need to think about the nutritional value of milk, and endeavoring to make sure that we move that number from only one out of ten Americans consuming the recommended three servings a day.

We need enforcement. We need the U.S. to raise concerns with Canada with respect to dairy.

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

American agriculture has a tremendous capacity to produce!

Ensuring that the U.S. dairy industry is globally competitive to capture this growing demand is imperative.

The current formula is failing because of changes that were made during the deliberations in the 2014 Farm Bill.

The reality is we have a dairy program today that is an ineffective safety net.

As we work through the tough decisions of how to allocate available resources, it is important that we have a very clear picture of what is and is not working.

I would be remiss if we did not take a moment to reflect on the fact that we lost a great friend of American agriculture last week.

I have long admired his commitment to bringing various groups together, all in an effort to build broader support for American agriculture.

Thank you, Lord, for the privilege of living in this country, and all the blessings that that bestows upon us.

We know we have a broken immigration system in this country, and we must figure out how to go about fixing it in a bipartisan manner.

I feel very strongly we must not, not retreat from international trade agreements.

Clearly, if USDA does not withdraw this rule, Congress must continue to act legislatively.