Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My questions will be through you to the witnesses.
Thank you both very much for being on screen today. I understand, obviously, that you can't be here, so it's good to actually get faces to your names.
Dr. Phillips, I was listening to your opening comments, and there were a couple of things that certainly interested me. In particular, you talked about investments and not investing enough in agriculture, the federal research, and particularly you mentioned they are not working together.
I had this picture in my head of something bureaucratic, and I'm wondering if you could flesh out your thoughts around that, and what needs to be done to move those research dollars and people together to make sure we get the right groups working together to get the innovation we need, and to ensure that we can continue to feed the world.