On the recordApril 9, 1998
You guys didn't oversell her. [Laughter] It was just like you said it would be. Let me call next on Karen Armstrong Cummings, because she's the managing director of the Commodity Growers Cooperative, which develops markets for family farm products. And they're interested in preserving the future of small farms. So how are we going to preserve the small farms and do something about teen smoking? What options are there? Could you give the microphone back, Rod? [Ms. Cummings described her participation in the Agriculture Department's National Commission on Small Farms, which developed over 140 recommendations to get USDA's policies focused on the family farm, and said that the tobacco program was essential to the continued existence of family farms in the Southeast.]
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