Leonard L. Boswell: “H.R. 1549 will have detrimental effects not only on our farmers who feed the world safe and wholesome meat and products…”

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.

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 down the road.

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.

Who would have ever thought Abilene, Kansas, somebody would end up as Supreme Allied Commander and President of this great country?