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| Photo credit: Mike Conaway |
Posted November 20, 2014
Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Texas has been name Chairman of the
House Agriculture Committee, according to a Southwest Farm Press article
available here.
Farm Futures also published an article available here
and Feedstuffs here.
After Conaway
was selected as the 50th chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, he
issued the following statement.
"I am
humbled and honored to be selected as the 50th chairman of the storied House
Committee on Agriculture. The work that farmers and ranchers do is part of
our country's foundation. They feed, fuel, and clothe our nation. I
look forward to building on the bipartisan work of the chairmen who have led
this committee for the past two centuries.”
Ranking
member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., congratulated Conaway on his new position,
according to Farm
Futures.
"As a
fellow CPA, I think we can find common ground as the Committee oversees farm
bill implementation and reauthorizing the CFTC during the next Congress,"
Peterson said in a released statement. "The Agriculture Committee has a
strong bipartisan tradition, which I look forward to continuing under Chairman
Conaway.
Earlier
this year Conaway voted in support of the 2014 Farm Bill.
American
Soybean Association (ASA) first vice president Wade Cowan congratulated Conaway
on behalf of the ASA, according to Feedstuffs.
"Rep.
Conaway has a proven track record of representing farmers not only in West
Central Texas, but across the country, and he will make a fine chairman,"
said Cowan. "As chair of the Agricultural Subcommittee on General Farm
Commodities and Risk Management, Rep. Conaway exhibited fluent understanding of
the complex issues that shape the nation's farm program, and how those issues
can impact soybean farmers in the field. With this understanding, we are
confident that soybean farmer issues will continue to be well represented
within the Committee, and we look forward to working with him and his able
staff."
