02/22/2010
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"Do any of you have examples of how the Farm Credit System neglects young, beginning, and small farmers and ranchers in your area?"
"Okay. Mr. Barker, would you say your bank is consistently more competitive with loan rates and loan availability to, particularly as we talked about earlier, some of the younger, smaller, newer borrow..."
"You indicate in your testimony that 14 percent of your portfolio consists of loans ranging from $1,000 to $249,000..."
"I will side with Senator Nelson's view that we--that's the last link, in terms of the ability to communicate."