On the recordApril 17, 2002
I guess what we are having a problem agreeing on is what defines a small farmer. I can tell you that when combines cost $250,000 to farmers, when tractors cost anywhere from $100,000 to $250,000, when everything else that we use is in the same price range, it does not make any difference what a group of people that come together and declare that they think there needs to be a limit applied to some of these things, it does not matter whether they think there should be a limit or not. It becomes a matter of economic reality that we have to deal with those high prices of our production input. It does not matter where that takes place, whether it be in the upper Midwest, or in the mid-South, where I come from.
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