04/22/2009
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"Cuts or drastic changes to eligibility requirements for these programs are not felt equally across all commodities."
"I do not think is well run in Washington, and there is certainly a long list of those."
"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."