03/23/2015
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"Well, last night in anticipation of this hearing I looked up the nearest I could find as to what a cotton harvester would cost a farmer. And it would cost roughly $600,000 to buy a new cotton harveste..."
"Farm incomes are historically volatile, they fluctuate widely and often unpredictable and quite frankly are as fickle as the weather."
"If we as a nation want to remain the leader of the world in producing high quality, high volume food and fiber at stable prices, then we must not balance the budget on the backs of those farmers and p..."
"What I can say is from my own experience with the bankers is that the first question that I always got asked when I went in to get our line of credit for our farm of the year is have you been to FSA a..."