Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank the witnesses for coming today.
As a vegetable farmer, I know what it's like growing horticulture crops. My dad is in the beef business, and he bought a small herd in the early 1970s. He kept the slips. I think his average price for the cows and heifers when he bought them was around $800, and I think he's getting $700 for them now. I hear it when I come home. It bothers me a bit what the government side is saying about the farmers kind of being on welfare, that it's a social program.