Willie Hefner: “Let us just put this in perspective. What is going to happen if this amendment passes, the small farmers is going to get…”

“Let us just put this in perspective. What is going to happen if this amendment passes, the small farmers is going to get hurt. We have practiced this in other areas. He is going to get hurt. We talk so much about the consumer. Everybody is a consumer, even the small peanut farmer. He buys peanut butter, he buys candy bars. He buys all the stuff that is made with peanut products. What is going to happen is the small farmer is going to be hurt, it is going to cost him money. But if you think for 1 minute that, if you pass this bill, the savings are going to be passed on to the consumer, then we have got some good property over in North Carolina on the coast that fluctuates with the tides, we like to sell you over there. You are not going to pass along the so-called savings to this. The people that make the Baby Ruths and the Pay Days and the Hershey bars, they are not going to pass along the savings to the consumer. So what it is going to boil down to is the small farmer, who is a consumer, he has to go out and buy; but the masses of the consumer that go every week to the Safeways and to the Giants and the places and buy the snack bars, what have you, he is not going to see any savings on this. It is going to be a tremendous profit to the people, the big manufacturers that make the, that use peanuts to go into their profits.”