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Mike Conaway: Ensuring that farmers have a freedom of choice is not about convenience, it's about necessity.

On the recordMarch 23, 2015
Ensuring that farmers have a freedom of choice is not about convenience, it's about necessity.
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Mike Conaway
Texas

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Emphasizes the importance of farmers' choices in food production.

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