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James M. Jeffords: “I have a chart that displays that fact. The farmers are the most important group that the consumers ever have to keep…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 1996
I have a chart that displays that fact. The farmers are the most important group that the consumers ever have to keep prices down, but they cannot do it if the retailers keep going up. Our farm prices have been going down for the last 10 years, and the retail prices have been going up. Every time we go down, they go up. Anybody that tries to say we are the cause of high retail prices, there is just no evidence of that whatever.
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James M. Jeffords
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Discussing the relationship between farm prices and retail prices.

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