“As a lifelong cow-calf rancher, I know firsthand the difficulties our farmers and ranchers face every day. Burdensome regulations, disease, recent natural disasters, and growing costs are just some of the challenges posed to farmers across the country. Agriculture is a way of life in Oklahoma and I’m proud to represent generations of family farms and ranches that work tirelessly to feed, fuel, and clothe our great nation.

With President Trump back in the White House and Secretary Brooke Rollins leading the way at the Department of Agriculture, America’s farmers and ranchers are receiving unprecedented levels of support. Signed into law in July, the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’ secured huge wins for the Ag community and jumpstarted the support needed for our farms and ranches to thrive. The OBBB strengthens the farm safety net and provides longer-term certainty for farmers and ranchers.

For starters, we are making crop insurance more affordable for producers by redefining USDA’s experience threshold definition from five to ten years and extending coverage through 2031, allowing more producers to qualify for assistance over a longer period of time. The community will also see an extension of the 45Z clean transportation fuel production credit for Oklahoma feedstock and sustainable aviation fuel producers through 2029.

The OBBB also invests $60 million in scholarship support for students at 1890 land-grant universities serving historically black universities, including our very own Langston University in Oklahoma.

In recent years, disease has hit the Ag community hard. This bill provides $233 million annually, starting in 2026, to the National Animal Disease Preparedness, Detection, and Vaccine Bank Programs to protect cattle health in Oklahoma and across the nation from foreign animal disease outbreaks.

With the OBBB also codifying the Small Business tax deduction, farmers will save more of their hard-earned money by being able to deduct 20% of their business income. I am also proud to say that we are preserving family farms by codifying the Death Estate Tax exemption threshold at $15 million per individual and $30 million per couple, adjusted annually for inflation, to allow farmers who have spent generations building their operations to pass them down to their children and grandchildren. Farmers will no longer have to worry about their land and operation leaving the family.

Oklahoma’s farmers and ranchers drive our state and I’m proud to have worked with my colleagues to get these critical wins into the OBBB. I will always fight for the Agriculture community and continue to implement policies that will maintain our way of life for the generations to come.”

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