John Spratt: “In South Carolina, 46,000 full- and part-time jobs are supported by agriculture. That is 22 percent of all the jobs in…”

“In South Carolina, 46,000 full- and part-time jobs are supported by agriculture. That is 22 percent of all the jobs in our State; $15.1 billion in income is attributable to agriculture, 17 percent of the State's total income. Our farmers and our people throughout the Southeast are faced with just about the worst drought I have seen in I don't know when. Soybeans that never develop. There is no pod. Cotton that is barely worth getting out of the fields. Hay, peanuts, pastures, you name it, they are all suffering. It is basically at the level of being catastrophic unless we can help and help soon.”