It always helps to have somebody who works for you introduce you. These are tough times for agriculture, and we all are working hard to help see farmers and ranchers through to more prosperous days. After many years in this job and as a Congressman representing an agricultural district, I know that food safety is an important part of this picture.
Safe food sells.
The more we improve the world's safest food supply, the more value we add to U.S. agriculture and the greater the contribution we make to the public health. I've been in this job almost four years. Before that, I was a Congressman from Kansas, where I lived and breathed wheat and cattle. After 18 years of that, I was prepared for all the questions I get in this job about grain exports and cattle prices. But I was a little surprised that these questions ran second to the ones I field most.