Collin Peterson: “Mr. Speaker, I come from an area, and I just spent last weekend out talking to farmers again, where they are telling me…”

“Mr. Speaker, I come from an area, and I just spent last weekend out talking to farmers again, where they are telling me up in the north part of my district that 70 percent of the producers are not going to be able to get money to get in the field next year. We are in an absolute crisis situation. I think all of us would like to pay for all of these additional appropriations, and I hope that we could find some way to pay for this. But my concern is that we might get into a situation where we cannot find the money and then nothing happens. We have an absolute desperate situation because of things beyond our control, because of disease problems, to some extent because of weather problems, but mostly disease problems. We need some kind of an immediate response. Should have been one 2 years ago. Mr. Speaker, while the rest of the country has been experiencing pretty good crops in most of the areas, and the prices have been a lot better than they are now, we were experiencing a situation where we did not have anything to sell.”