On the recordJune 23, 1998
just a couple of things to set the record straight. There are no licenses required to grow peanuts. Anyone can grow peanuts. In fact, 120,000 tons of non-quota peanuts found itself into the domestic market over each of the last 2 years. Here is a list I will put in the record of 10 reforms that were put into the peanut program in the 1996 farm bill, just as the previous speaker was talking about, that have had the result of reducing peanut farmer income by as much as 30 percent. But that is not enough for our colleagues today on the floor. All commodities have a loan. All commodities have a loan. That is what we are talking about for peanuts today, the loan price for peanuts. Any efforts to further limit the marketing ability of peanut producers will have a devastating effect on peanut production in the United States.
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