Marcy Kaptur: “I would ask people to visit their farmers' market and take advantage of farm fresh produce. Ask your grocer to procure…”

“I would ask people to visit their farmers' market and take advantage of farm fresh produce. Ask your grocer to procure locally-grown products, even eggs, poultry. Very interesting to see how few are able to actually participate in supplying the shelves. That is not by accident. It is because of the system that we have today. We need local solutions, as well as national solutions, to this problem. I would urge the Members, I would say to the Speaker, that the American people should call their Members of Congress, particularly those in the leadership, and they should be asking for clearance of the emergency supplemental farm bill here in this Congress. It would only solve part of the problem. The biggest share remains ahead of us. If we could release credit for this spring, that would permit some of our farmers to remain in business. But America must be concerned with the next generation of farmers and how she is going to preserve an independent agriculture, if at all, for the 21st century.”