Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, we have an unprecedented disaster facing farm country, and working together, Republicans and Democrats, we have to respond. It is estimated that we could lose up to one-third of the farmers in the State I represent if we do not do something meaningful. This is urgent. This is a crisis. Our region, the Upper Great Plains, has been swamped by a 5-year wet cycle that has left 1.4 million acres inundated, under water, not able to be productive. In addition to that, the same wet cycle has produced a disease called Scab, which has devastated production, and for crop we are able to get that is afflicted with this Scab, we get steeply discounted prices. Just when we thought nothing could possibly get worse, we have a collapse in Asia markets and the price of wheat and barley is literally at a 50-year low.”