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 -- As a member of the House Committee on Agriculture, today Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) participated in a hearing entitled, “Rural Broadband -- Examining Internet Connectivity Needs and Opportunities in Rural America.”
HAVELOCK, Iowa – Today, Congressman Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa) and U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) met with local business owners in Pocahontas County, along with leaders of the Northwest Communications Cooperative Association (NCCA), to discuss rural broadband in Iowa and ways to expand reliable internet throughout the state.
WASHINGTON -- Today, Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) led his colleagues in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, urging the USDA to reopen the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) immediately to provide much-needed assistance to biofuels producers and farmers across the country. Feenstra joined Reps.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) partnered with Rep. Ron Kind (WI-03) to introduce the Enhancing Credit Opportunities in Rural America (ECORA) Act, which would remove taxation on income from farm real estate loans made by community banks. The ECORA Act will benefit farmers, families, and rural communities across Iowa by allowing more institutions to offer affordable credit to rural and agricultural borrowers.
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) joined Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Budget Rep. Jason Smith (MO-08) and dozens of his colleagues as a cosponsor of two bills that aim to ease the tax burden on family farms and rural main street businesses: the Death Tax Repeal Act and the Main Street Tax Certainty Act.
WASHINGTON -- Today, Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) was assigned to serve on two House Agriculture subcommittees: Livestock and Foreign Agriculture and Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit (CEEC).
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Randy Feenstra (IA-04) released the following statement after House Democrats voted to strike his amendment to provide derecho disaster relief for Iowa producers and small business owners already dealing with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic:
WASHINGTON -- On Friday, the House Committee on Rules will meet to consider Speaker Pelosi’s $1.9 trillion Payoff to Progressives, which includes hundreds of billions in spending on liberal agenda items that have nothing to do with COVID testing, contact tracing, or vaccine programs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Iowa’s Congressional delegation urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to expand eligibility of the department’s COVID-19 relief programs to include custom cattle feeders, a sector of Iowa’s agricultural economy operated primarily by family farmers.
On Monday, August 10, 2020, a massive storm system with high winds and isolated tornadoes tore through the Midwest, leaving a 700 mile path of destruction in its wake -- from Nebraska all the way to Indiana. In Iowa, early estimates indicated that 43 percent of cropland was impacted across the state, flattening millions of acres of corn and soybeans, crippling grain bins, and tearing barns and machine sheds apart.