I came back convinced that if I could take 40 farmers from my district in to the area during the middle of the winter for about 6 weeks and they could turn around some of those efforts and make them successful, because there was for example, very little knowledge of poultry or swine husbandry.
Doug Bereuter: “I came back convinced that if I could take 40 farmers from my district in to the area during the middle of the winter…”
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Discussing agricultural efforts in El Salvador during a floor speech.
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