Leonard L. Boswell: “We are all aware of the economic crisis our nation is facing and the effects that crisis is having on businesses across…”

I think it is clear to financiers that the hedging risk is a critical aspect of running a successful farm operation and doing so is good business for rural cooperatives and banks and producer communities.

I thank the gentlewoman from California. So if we care about the future of our farmers and our young farmers, we must pass a 5-year farm bill, and we must do it before the August work period. So let's pass this bill today, and let's move…

I feel it is an honor and privilege that Leonard Boswell, born in a tenant farmhouse, gets to be here today and bear testimony and make comment, that I am just proud to be part of the memory of Dwight Eisenhower.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 132, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $22,000,000)''. Page 141, line 12, after the dollar amount…