Dale Bumpers: “I do not want to shock my colleague too much, but I am not going to offer a rebuttal to the arguments he just made on…”

“I do not want to shock my colleague too much, but I am not going to offer a rebuttal to the arguments he just made on the Market Promotion Program. I think I first offered an amendment to strike those funds 5 years ago, and the Senate has heard that debate many, many times and so I will not belabor it again. But I did want to point out to my colleagues that there was a very interesting op-ed piece in the Post this morning by Daniel Greenberg who is editor and publisher of Science & Government Report, a Washington newsletter. Yesterday, in the Chamber, I pointed out that last year is the first year in modern history that yields per acre on a same-crop basis did not increase. Every year in the lifetime of every single person in the Senate soybean yields have gone up, wheat yields have gone up, cotton yields have gone up, and particularly food yields have gone up to feed an ever-expanding population in the world. As you know, one of the reasons corn and wheat are as high as they are right now is because there was a genuine concern that we were going to run out of wheat and corn in this country.”