How do you create a circumstance in a farm bill that basically says, yes, we have got to help those big guys. No problem with that. Do not forget about the rest of them, the 90 percent that are struggling every single year.
Vilsack discusses the need to support both large and small farms in policy.
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If you have too many competing proposals, essentially, you're back to the same old same old and it makes it more difficult because it's easier to sort of stalemate the process.
What we need to do is be able to create additional ways in which profit centers and income sources can come from the farm.
I think there is still an opportunity and a hope that there is enough bipartisan support to get this passed.
The key here, Representative, is to make sure that we get it done as quickly as possible.
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