Pat Roberts: “I am very confident we will be able to proceed with the farm bill.”

But short-term, for goodness' sake, do not, in this business of playing your cards of trying to get a better deal for the United States or a better trade situation, do not do so at the expense of American agriculture, which is going…

We are in a dire fix. We are trying to write a farm bill here, and it is with a backdrop of severe budget limitations.

We have seen Mexico turn to Argentina to purchase wheat and Brazil for corn.

We have to drive quite a few miles to get to that hospital, like you have in Alamosa.