Larry Pressler: “I hope that we can enact farm legislation quickly. I just met with a group of farmers in my State. They expressed to me…”

“I hope that we can enact farm legislation quickly. I just met with a group of farmers in my State. They expressed to me the need to work with their bankers to make their spring plans for planting. They expressed to me the need to have a farm bill passed for purposes of their planning, so that they could have certainty of their investment. There has been much debate in this Chamber over the years on farm policy. I know that there are currently several approaches that are floating around the Chamber. One is, more or less, some modification of the Freedom to Farm Act, as suggested by Congressman Roberts and others, there is another plan to have a new farm bill and another to continue the present farm bill for a year. I suspect that in this Senate with the need for cloture, it will be hard to get a cleancut decision on any one of those bills. I suspect that we will have to have a compromise of one of those approaches. Let me say that in talking to the farmers from my State--these particular farmers were grain farmers, corn and wheat farmers--they thought the Freedom to Farm Act would be most advantageous to them from what they had heard and from what they knew about it.”