House Committee on Agriculture

Agriculture generally, including agricultural production, marketing and price stabilization, commodity exchanges, crop insurance, soil conservation, dairy, animal and plant industry, farm credit, rural development, rural electrification, human nutrition, forestry, and inspection of livestock, poultry, meat and seafood.

House Committee on Agriculture has 53 members, made up of 29 Republicans and 24 Democrats. Glenn Thompson chairs it. Angie Craig is the ranking member, which is the senior post held by the minority party. House committee assignments are made at the start of each 2-year Congress, so membership can change substantially after every general election. The membership below is generated from the roster this site maintains against clerk.house.gov and senate.gov.

Jurisdiction source: House Rule X

How business reaches this committee

House Rule X gives this committee the subjects above. Each bill introduced in the House is referred to the committee whose Rule X jurisdiction covers its primary subject, and a bill that spans several subjects can go to more than one committee at once. This committee then decides whether to hold hearings, amend the text and report it to the floor.

Subcommittees

The committee divides its work among 6 subcommittees:

  • Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit
  • Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture
  • Subcommittee on Conservation, Research, and Biotechnology
  • Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
  • Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
  • Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development

Who serves on it

53 representatives sit on the committee: 29 Republicans and 24 Democrats. That gives the majority 29 of the 53 seats. Glenn Thompson is the chair. Austin Scott is the vice chair. Angie Craig is the ranking member. They sit for 53 districts, and each of those districts has its own page on this site.

Following its work

Hearing notices, markup schedules, witness lists and published reports live on the committee’s own site, linked at the top of this page. The full member list below links to each member’s page here, with contact details and the seat they hold. For background on how seats and chairs are handed out, read How congressional committees work. For what happens to a bill after a committee reports it, read How a bill becomes law. To look up who represents a particular place, start at Browse all 435 districts.

Members

53 members. Generated from the roster this site holds, checked against the Clerk of the House and the Senate committee lists on September 26, 2026.

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