Leonard L. Boswell: “We are not making more land, we are just making a lot more people and how are we going to take care of that as we go…”

If we don't give the tools to do the job, for example, to the IRS and if this fiscal cliff thing happens, they don't have the capacity to deal with their responsibility.

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…

So, in closing, I want to say this: Congress cannot wait to act. Network security hasn't kept up with network speed. This is the fundamental purpose of this bill. I encourage Members to begin to secure our networks through sharing…

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.