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WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, applauded Senate adoption of a resolution celebrating the 125th anniversary of the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA). Boozman joined Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to introduce...

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, authored an opinion piece published in Agri-Pulse that spotlights how Biden administration policies are driving inflation and what that means for the economic future of our family farmers and ranchers.“The...

WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, announced that Chelsie Keys has been promoted to policy director for the Republican side of the committee. In this role, Keys will lead the policy development and strategy for Ranking Member Boozman’s team....

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and U.S. Representative Glenn 'GT’ Thompson (R-PA), ranking member of the House Committee on Agriculture are leading a bicameral effort calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rescind its decision to revoke all...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the hearing to consider the nominations of Chavonda Jacobs-Young to be under secretary for research, education, and economics and Margo Schlanger to be...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, joined with Republican leaders of committees that have received reconciliation instructions to call on the Democrats to hold legislative hearings and markups with votes on Democrats’ reckless taxing and spending...

WASHINGTON—During a U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry hearing to consider the nomination of the next chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Ranking Member John Boozman (R-AR) continued his push for the committee to hold hearings on the Democrat’s reconciliation package. “The committee, of...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the hearing to consider the nomination of Rostin Behnam to be chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC):Good morning. I am pleased to...

WASHINGTON—Ranking Member John Boozman (R-AR) and a coalition of Republican members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry are calling on Unilever, as parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, to end the ice cream maker’s Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) efforts against Israel. Ben & Jerry’s recently announced that it...

WASHINGTON—In recognition of National Forest Products Week, U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and U.S. Representative Bruce Westerman, ranking member on the House Committee on Natural Resources, are highlighting the tens of thousands of hardworking Arkansans...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, announced that Carley Esser will be joining as professional staff on the Republican side of the committee. Esser will manage Title I commodity programs and crop insurance. Prior to joining the committee, Esser served as...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following statement after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pilot program to encourage continued producer involvement in addressing climate...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, welcomed the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) long-awaited analysis of changes to stepped-up basis as it disproves the Biden administration’s claim that only two percent of family farms would be...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, urged the agriculture community to continue to push back on the Biden administration’s proposed tax increases on family farmers, ranchers and foresters and delivered a strong rebuke of Secretary Tom...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security hearing entitled “Milk Pricing: Areas of Improvement and...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, told senior industry leaders, policy makers and key thought leaders that the Democrat’s tax and spend bill leaves animal agriculture “out in the cold” during his remarks at the “Sustainable...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following remarks, as prepared, delivered at the “Sustainable Solutions for Zero Hunger by 2030: A Vision for Animal Agriculture” forum: “Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following statement on the disarray over the agriculture portion of the Democrats’ reckless tax and spend reconciliation bill in the House of Representatives: “The House Agriculture...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, held his annual tour of Arkansas farms, ranches and agriculture operations provides him with an opportunity to highlight this incredibly important sector of the Natural State’s economy as well as hear directly...

WASHINGTON– U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, is launching his annual Ag Tour next week. The senator will kick off the week-long highlight of Arkansas agriculture operations on Monday in Charleston and continue with stops at farms and facilities across...