Political Quotes

“this amendment also deals with conservation reserve. The original intent was to take those marginal and erodible acres out of production and set them aside. This amendment pays the landowner more for the acres that he sets aside that are the lower class lands and soils and pays less for the productive land. This is an incentive for the farmer or rancher to set aside the land that we really want to see in the Conservation Reserve Program, and it will do everything that we wanted to do that I spoke of on the first amendment. It is fairly straightforward. If we think this program is important, then we must fulfill the intent of the program and give the producer the incentive to carry it out. I think that is what this does. I will offer amendments as we go along, but those are the two main amendments that I wanted to offer to the Daschle substitute of the farm bill. I hope as we march down this road to try to craft this legislation that we can at least take a commonsense look at these amendments. It seems in agriculture when you start talking about a farm bill everybody becomes a farmer. Sometimes we get led astray when we are not living in the real world on what it is like in the country. I want to tell you that there is only one problem in the country; that is the price. Everything else would go away if we were getting a fair price for the product. The price we get now has very little to do with the cost of the final product we buy in the grocery store.”