Agricultural Issues Quotes

Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee it has been important to me to intersect with Hoosier farmers as often as possible.

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

I have represented farmers in federal court during the Iowa farm crisis. A farmer from Butler County. I don't think Sen. Grassley had that life experience. It's just a simple difference of who we are and where we've come from.

I'm proud to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee.

Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

Because he was unorganized, the farmer has been made the financial shock absorber.... He fed the nation and he lost his home.

We have been discovering that vast numbers of our farming population live in a poverty more abject than that of many of the farmers of Europe, whom we are wont to call peasants

I have told all the secretaries and commissioners that if anything was done to open up our country for settlement, the government should see to it that more land per capita be given us because our country is not a good farming country and we should have to get our supplies from raising cattle.

This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.

Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

Here in Washington the farmers are being treated like a bunch of suckers and as if they don't know anything and need a guardian.

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty

Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.