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Jeff Merkley: “How can one possibly justify charging organic farmers more because they are going to get a higher insurance…”

On the recordDecember 31, 2012
How can one possibly justify charging organic farmers more because they are going to get a higher insurance compensation, but then say they will not get a higher insurance compensation? We are going to take that away? So it operates as a structural effort to basically take money away from the organic community and give it to the nonorganic community--I mean, complete unfairness in a competitive marketplace. How can one possibly justify stripping that from this extension?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon
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Dec 31, 2012

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