"This is another Band-Aid approach that has about as much chance to solve the dairy price crisis as taking an aspirin would have to cure cancer."
"There are no words that can adequately describe how truly bad the economics are, they are just that bad."
"The problem is simply stated: We have too many farms with too many cows producing too much milk for the markets that we have at this time."
"Due to a lot of factors, change cannot come soon enough to save those who progressed too far along the path of overproduction, and for many the result will be the end of their farming experience."
"In my county alone, there are 25 dairies that have either filed, or are on the edge of filing, for bankruptcy."
"The impact will be huge if we do not change something in the very near future."
"We support the July 15th letter that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, along with my Senator, Barbara Boxer, from California, have signed on."
"this Subcommittee has provided in the full Committee as it relates to what has been the meltdown of the dairy industry nationwide"
"the worst I have ever seen it, in our family, in my family's generation"
"if we are going to try to change this cycle, these boom-and-bust cycles continuing to be narrow, it seems to me that the industry has to come together"
"the issues are, many of them are, related to competitiveness, and the fact that we would be more competitive in the long run as you get the distortions out of the international trading system, and tho..."
"I once again want to thank you and Chairman Peterson."