Anti-farmer campaign funded by taxpayers breaks public trust

Last week, I was joined by 144 of my colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives, one third of the entire House, to demand the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) cooperation with congressional and Inspector General investigations into a very serious matter.

The issue under investigation is the grant funding that the EPA provided to promote an anti-farmer, anti-rancher advocacy campaign in Washington. Farmers and ranchers are the original conservationists because their livelihoods depend on taking care of the land, air and water.

As a farmer myself, whose family still runs a hop f...