Byron Dorgan: “I do think that family farmers out there, are struggling these days against the odds and circumstances where they cannot…”

“I do think that family farmers out there, are struggling these days against the odds and circumstances where they cannot control their own destinies at all. It is not their fault they have been devastated by crop disease. That is not their fault. It is not their fault that grain prices have collapsed. They did not have anything to do with that. And it is not their fault that the Crop Insurance Program, that we advertised as replacing a disaster program, does not work at all for somebody who suffers five straight disasters. One-third of our counties in North Dakota have had a disaster every year for 5 straight years--every year for 5 straight years.”