USDA has very powerful tools to help the industry advance and also to sustain food supply chains through moments of crisis.

We need to make investments and support policies that will help our farms thrive and be financially viable.

It offers farmer-friendly, streamlined experience that is making it easier for producers to develop and sell carbon credits.

This subcommittee has an opportunity to turn that figure around and transform our food system.

The objectives of this initiative are to establish regional centers that would support dairy businesses and farmers.

In 2018, the Dairy Business Innovation Initiative was launched as part of the 2018 Farm Bill, by Senator Baldwin and others.

Chair Baldwin first secured support for the creation of these initiatives in the 2018 farm bill.

I think education is important, and I think also making the connection back to the fact that it is not just about the products that we get from it, like milk, but it is the farm story as well.

Chair Baldwin knows this all too well.

For our farms and rural towns to succeed, we need a Federal Government that is in their corner.

In 2019, the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives was launched as part of the 2018 farm bill by Senator Baldwin and others.

I believe that it starts with helping to create better markets that allow for a competitive marketplace.