Farmers, Ranchers, Foresters, and Consumers Deserve Certainty

Floor Speech

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Mr. MOORE of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, consumer prices are up 19.4 percent since Biden took office, and inflation is up 3\1/2\ percent in the last year. Producers simply can't afford this administration's bad policies.

My top priority this farm bill cycle has been addressing reference prices, which Mr. Scott just referred to.

Safety net programs are the bedrock of risk management for our producers, and current reference prices are not sufficient to help producers manage risk against these razor-thin margins, thanks to Bidenomics.

As input prices go up and commodity prices go down, producers rely on these reference prices in the farm safety net to stay in business.

I have seen this in my own family, hearing about the challenges my cousin, who is a young farmer, has had just getting started. I heard similar concerns during the farm bill listening sessions that I had all across the district.

That is why we need these inclusions in the farm bill. They will deliver for producers in Alabama and across America. We need this legislation to fund the farm safety net, promote market development, increase feral swine control efforts, modernize data collection for our foresters, protect crop insurance, and expand rural broadband deployment.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to help our producers battle Biden's inflation.

Before I end, I will say I hope you will all join me in praying for Israel in the wake of this horrific attack they faced this weekend. May God bless them.

I thank Chairman Thompson for his leadership.

BREAK IN TRANSCRIPT

Source