By: Heather Garlich, Senior Director for Media and Public Relations, Food Marketing Institute

Andrew Harig, FMI senior director of sustainability, tax and trade, testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition yesterday, focusing on the issue of food prices and the consumer. He joined Jason Henderson, associate dean and director of Purdue Extension in Purdue University's College of Agriculture, and Ephraim Leibtag, assistant administrator of the Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service, on the witness panel.

Harig testified, “As the final link in the supply chain, food retail plays a crucial role in connecting consumers with farmers and ranchers. FMI and our industry feel a strong sense of responsibility to create a better understanding of the role that agricultural policy and the health of the farm sector play in making sure that the United States has the safest, most wholesome and most affordable food supply in the world.”

Links to the full testimony of all those who participated along with the video archive are available online.