Stephen Fincher Quotes

As I've long said, the farm bill is in need of major reform. At first chance, I voted to remove direct payments. Both the House and the Senate passed bills that end direct payments, and as we move forward, I hope we can work out the rest of the issues to implement the necessary reforms.

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

The only way to keep food prices down is to keep them [farmers] down on the farm after they've seen the parity.

Farm policy and food stamp policy should not be mixed. They should stand on their own merits.

We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and helps struggling families bridge the gap between hard times and a full dinner table.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

We don't pay truckers not to truck, we don't pay miners not to mine and we shouldn't pay farmers not to farm.

The only thing I'd like to see hi [Jimmy Carter] do when he gets to the White House is appoint a working farmer as secretary of agriculture, that's all.

It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.

The farm subsidy program is something that was put into place over 60 years ago, and it was put into place to do one thing, and it's turned into something else.

American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm.

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

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 committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social experiment on a whole generation of children.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.

I think Bensen’s farm policy is insane.

The agricultural interest of the country is connected with every other, and superior in importance to them all.

Farm subsidies are a waste of money.

Farm subsidies are a matter of national food security

What our family has done is participate in the farm programs … programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.