Frank Lucas actually said...

This hearing of the Committee on Agriculture entitled, The Future of U.S. Farm Policy: Formulation of the 2012 Farm Bill, will come to order...

It is vitally important that the commodity title give producers options so they can choose the program that best works for them.

I expect we will hear a different perspective than we got in the Northeast and the Midwest.

Making policy without regard to the economic consequences is a luxury we cannot afford even in the strongest of economies.