Agriculture
Randy grew up working on farms, frequently walking beans and doing chores. His in-laws run a livestock and crop farm in Sioux County, where he helps out along with his wife and four kids – spending many weekends bailing hay, loading hogs, vaccinating cattle, and maintaining seven finishing sites.
He knows first-hand that corn and soybean growers -- along with our livestock, egg, dairy, poultry, ethanol, and biodiesel producers -- form the backbone of the 4th District’s economy. As the second largest ag producing district in the country, Randy serves as a voice for Iowa's hardworking farmers, giving them a seat at the table on the House Agriculture Committee.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) introduced three pieces of legislation to pump the breaks on President Biden’s reckless subsidization of the electric vehicle industry, research the potential of biofuels to power jet engines, and develop a commercially viable fuel cell system for cars and trucks powered exclusively by biofuels. Feenstra first introduced these three bills in the 117th Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped send a bipartisan, bicameral letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan and Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young urging the Biden Administration to make E-15 available year-round permanently. The effort was led by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) in the U.S. Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) announced that he was appointed to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry on the House Agriculture Committee.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped introduce, alongside U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), the Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act. This legislation strictly prohibits any person or entity associated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from purchasing American farmland.
China represents the greatest threat to our national, economic, energy, and food security. From buying up American farmland to stonewalling investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, China cannot be trusted.
With our total output ranking second in the nation, Iowa agriculture is truly a productivity powerhouse. We are blessed to grow and raise significantly more than we, ourselves, can consume. Therefore, we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to help provide for consumers all over the globe. And Iowans can be immensely proud of that. In our individual roles as Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and as a Member of Congress on the U.S.
On my 39-county tour, I have spoken with hundreds of independent cattle producers across northwest Iowa. In my conversations with them, they all express the same concern that the big four meatpacking companies are reaping record profits while family-owned cattle farms are barely scraping by.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) joined 195 of his Republican colleagues in sending a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan demanding that the Biden Administration rescind its final and destructive “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped introduce the Foreign Adversary Risk Management (FARM) Act to prevent malign foreign interests from infiltrating rural America and protect America’s agricultural supply chains and family farms.