Dick Lugar: “I come before the Senate as a fifth-generation family farmer; that is, five family generations of Lugars, from the 1820s…”

“I come before the Senate as a fifth-generation family farmer; that is, five family generations of Lugars, from the 1820s in Grant County, through the present farming operation we have in Marion County, have been involved in the business of farming. We take the family farming very seriously on the 604 acres of corn and soybeans and tree stands that I am now responsible for and have been for the last 42 years. The contents of farm legislation are interesting to me as a citizen of this country, certainly as a member of the Agriculture Committee, and as one who is affected by those policies as I try to determine what I ought to plant, what my opportunities are as a family farmer in Indiana. I have been a long-time member of the Indiana Farm Bureau, as was my father, Marvin Lugar, and my uncle, Harry Lugar, a long-time member of the farmer's union in Indiana.”