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Farm Bill  

I’m optimistic at this point in time about getting the Farm Bill completed, and we’re aiming to get it done this week. This has been an extremely fluid situation where I’ve been optimistic before and then saw the bottom fall out of a compromise, so I suppose that should be taken with a grain of salt. I want to give farmers certainty for the next five to six years, and that will be done if we can hammer this out soon. If not, we go with a one-year extension or back to the 1949 Farm Bill. I hope that doesn’t happen, but obviously the extension would have to be better than going back to 1940’s legislation with all the advances farmers have gone through in those sixty years.