National Ag Day

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Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, today in the United States it is National Agriculture Day. This is a day that we recognize that the food on your table came from somewhere, Mr. Speaker, and it isn't just a supermarket, or a truck, or maybe even a taco truck like in California. No. It came from the hard work of a farmer or a rancher producing for all of us.

One of my goals here as a member of the Agriculture Committee is to make sure they can keep producing and keep the food on the table. American grown products are of the highest quality and the highest responsibility as far as labor, environment, and the whole works.

Nonetheless, do you know what, Mr. Speaker?

They still need the tools to be able to do that into the future. We need to pass, more immediately, another 5-year farm bill like in my home State of California. We also need to have the input. We need to have a water supply that is steady and growing. As the population grows, we need to increase the State's water supply because more and more of it is going to other things than sustaining agriculture which has been so strong in the Sacramento Valley, the San Joaquin Valley, and the whole State.

As we celebrate National Ag Day, Mr. Speaker, if there is food on your plate, remember it came from a farmer.

If you are going to complain about the farmer, Mr. Speaker, just don't do it with your mouth full.

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