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With each one of you to try to craft a longterm piece of legislation to guide our nations farmers and ranchers and give them the certitude they need. My home state is the home of over 48,000 farms, and we have over 1 billion in farm exports a year. So this is a pretty big deal to us. Im honored they gave me an opportunity to be here and work on it. We strongly prefer to keep the usda food safety and Inspection Service catfish inspection program. In addition, the setting of target prices, which are vital to many alabama farmers. I also support giving the livestock industry relief from the troub...

Frankly, most importantly, we can all agree coming to some agreement in a reasonable time frame is probably the most important thing this committee can do to help grow our economy. And doing it on a timeline that allows the Appropriation Committee to deliver a result without shutting down the government or putting it at any risk is about the best thing we can do. I will agree we cant simply grow our way out of our problem. We have to address the driver of our debt and deficit. We have to dont reduce our deficits which weve cut in half over the last four years. If we dont, interest intense is a...

Well, good afternoon. Its been a long time in coming, but we are here. And its wonderful to have the opportunity to have all of us here today together. I was thinking, mr. Chairman, that when you and i started, i remember when i came into the house, we were kind of at the low end of the totem pole on the Agriculture Committees. And now we both have the honors of working together. And it really is an honor to work with you as we bring this final farm bill home. And thats what were all doing. This has been a wonderful process with our four agricultural leaders, with Ranking Member peterson, with...

Safety net for those who grow our food and for those who rely on Food Assistance as well. While congress was writing this bill, my home state got hit with droughts and blizzards that cost us tens of thousands of livestock. The livestock disaster programs that i authorrd in this bill and will provide much needed relief to those who are struggling so hard during this difficult time. Our Black Hills National Forest is going to gain some regulatory relief. And additional tools to combat the pine beatle thats destroying our beetle thats destroying our black hills. A Permanent Office of tribal relat...

Washington -- Montana Farm Bureau members spent an intensive two days in Washington, D.C meeting with their congressmen, visiting with pertinent Congressional committees and learning about advocacy as part of