John Thune actually said...

"We really will need guarantees going forward to keep producers in business."

"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..."

"I think it just puts a fine point on how important it is that we are really focused on agriculture."