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Rick Allen: “As far as family farmers are concerned, I am glad for Virginia family farmers in the peanut business that this law is…”

On the recordDecember 19, 2001
As far as family farmers are concerned, I am glad for Virginia family farmers in the peanut business that this law is not going to be changed before October of 2002. Changing those laws would have been devastating to those family farmers. And while the Cochran-Roberts and Hutchinson amendments were better, because of the fact this is not going into effect now, they can plan, with their leases for equipment, in this final year of this farm bill.
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Rick Allen
Republican · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of the farm bill on Virginia family farmers during a floor speech.

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