Bob Bennett: “The loans are targeted in part to beginning farmers, minority farmers, socially disadvantaged farmers.”

We will not only lose the industry, we will lose the skills that go with it.

I would urge you to have conversations with whatever 'elves' within the administration you deal with, over at OMB, because I think that's where the decision was made.

The more dependent we become on imported oil, the more difficult many of our challenges are.

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.