Texas Farm Bureau Member Testifies Before House Ag Committee

Schwertner: The main thing that I wanted to get across to the House Ag Committee is just the urgency that there is from farmers and ranchers to pass an updated and a modernized farm bill. Given the current market conditions that farmers and ranchers are under, it's so important that we have updated Title I policies and crop insurance policies that really enable farmers and ranchers to continue forward with their operations. And then the importance of trade negotiations for expanded markets for farmers and ranchers as well.

Schwertner: They're human too, and they're people, and they really don't know what problems they should be solving if we don't tell them. If we're not telling them, they're going to hear the story from somebody else, and so who better to tell our story than us as farmers and ranchers? And so, I just think it's important that we share the problems that we need them to solve firsthand, so they get that information directly from the source.

Schwertner: All of our policies start at a local county level, and the best way to start getting involved is to reach out to your county Farm Bureau board of directors and find out if there's an opportunity for you to serve on the board or at the very least contribute to policies that are being developed at the county level that then make their way to the state level and then ultimately the national level.