We have the darnedst time and I know that your staff does, too, just keeping up with the dang fool regulations and the cost.

Did your dad have anything to do with that? He probably played against us.

I want to thank the 46th Governor of Kansas, my dear friend and colleague, Sam Brownback.

I am not going to go into any more rants on big nanny government.

Science-based nutrition standards for foods, one, improve the nutritional profile of school foods.

To be a farmer in Finney County, Kansas, America, and produce what you do produce in the good years to help our country, this country and a very troubled and hungry world, you cannot do that.

I guess I wanted to mention, we think we should keep that in private hands, not to go into some other program.

Well, then conversely, if that loan was not available, how would a change of financing costs and your co-ops' ability to even make those improvements?

Given the tight budget environment that we are looking forward to streamlining programs and try to increase the efficiencies, are there areas within the farm programs that you utilize where you think there might be opportunities for some…

Let me just say that both the Chairwoman and I are very strong supporters of EQIP.

We need those producers to stay in business if we are going to meet this global challenge and do so in a way in that protects our most valuable resource, our future generations.

the President promised to reduce premiums for all Americans by $2,500, a report published last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows that premiums will increase by 9.4 percent in 2014.