Six members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry stood for re-election this year, and all won their contests. They included four Republicans and two Democrats. The Republican senators elected to new six-year terms included John Boozman of Arkansas, John Hoeven of North Dakota, Charles Grassley of Iowa and John Thune of South Dakota. Democrats winning their re-election contests included Patrick Leahy of Vermont (a former chairman of the agriculture committee) and Michael Bennet of Colorado.
The current House Committee on Agriculture has 26 Republican and 19 Democratic members. Of the 45 members, 41 stood for re-election and all but one, Democrat Brad Ashford of Nebraska, were re-elected.
Republican members of the committee re-elected this cycle included K. Michael Conaway of Texas (the committee chairman), Randy Neugebauer of Texas (the vice-chairman), Bob Goodlatte of Virginia (a former committee chairman), Frank D. Lucas of Oklahoma (also a former committee chairman), Steve King of Iowa, Mike Rogers of Alabama, Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, Bob Gibbs of Ohio, Austin Scott of Georgia, Rick Crawford of Arkansas, Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, Jeff Denham of California, Doug LaMalfa of California, Rodney Davis of Illinois, Ted Yoho of Florida, Jackie Walorski of Indiana, Rick Allen of Georgia, Mike Bost of Illinois, David Rouzer of North Carolina, Ralph Abraham of Louisiana, Trent Kelly of Mississippi, John Moolenaar of Michigan and Dan Newhouse of Washington.
Two Republican members of the committee chose not to seek re-election: Dan Benishek of Michigan and Chris Gibson of New York.
Democratic members of the committee winning their re-election bids included Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota (ranking member and former chairman of the agriculture committee), David Scott of Georgia, Jim Costa of California, Timothy J. Walz of Minnesota, Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio, Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, Suzan DelBene of Washington, Filemon Vela of Texas, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Ann McLane Kuster of New Hampshire, Rick Nolan of Minnesota, Cheri Bustos of Illinois, Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Pete Aguilar of California, Alma Adams of North Carolina and Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands (Ms. Plaskett is a non-voting member of the committee).
Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona retired from the House to run for the Senate against John McCain; she was defeated. Democrat Gwen Graham of Florida did not seek re-election.