1.   Does he agree that hill farmers had a substantial drop in income in recent years?

2.   Farmers have increased food production to meet demand.

3.   Farmers have the extra cost of paying for the upkeep of many drainage ditches to control flooding.

4.   Farmers will have to wait for fields to dry out before they can harvest their soybeans.

5.   Flat rate farmers will have to issue invoices for all supplies of goods and services where the flat rate addition is added.

6.   Following consolidation, farmers would have irrevocable freehold tenure to their land.

7.   In exchange, farmers would have wide latitude to plant almost any crop they wish.

8.   In fact, corn farmers probably have as big a stake in sugar quotas as do sugar growers!

9.   On the plains the farmers have to deal with frequent floods, but up in the hills their problems are of a different nature.