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On the recordNovember 27, 2012
In testimony we have had before this committee from the Gates Foundation, they emphasize, in addition to all we have talked about thus far, the whole problem of transportation; transportation both of crops once the farm gets beyond merely sustaining a single family and markets, at least some way in which there might be some change in the economic circumstances of the farmer if the produce can get to a market and money can get back to the producer in the process of all of this.
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Richard Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Discussing transportation issues affecting farmers and markets in relation to agricultural programs.

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