Farm Support Quotes

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.

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

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.

The way you support farmers is by shopping and buying raw ingredients.

I will work towards ensuring that farmers do not face any crisis and live up to the confidence they have reposed in me.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

Let’s help farmers when they need it; let’s not, when they don’t.

I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.

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

I believe if given the choice, Americans will choose to support American farmers when they head to the store to shop.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

Farm subsidies are a waste of money.

Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad.

Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.

Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.

Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S.

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.

Do we need farm program reform? Absolutely.

We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

For years, the United States has criticized Europe for lavishly supporting its farmers, but the truth is, the United States and European Union spend roughly equal amounts on farm support, which is spread across 7 million farms in the European Union (16 million after E.U. enlargement) as opposed to 2 million farms (mostly large ones) in the United States.