Pat Roberts: “We face very serious times in this country and we have all heard about the debt commission and all of the…”

We are dry. We are having a drought.

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.

Wherever there is a void, the world pays a price.

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…