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en Literally, today a gallon of diesel is costing our farmers more than they are getting in return for a bushel of wheat,

en I pay $2.95 per bushel of corn now. If I bought the corn from farmers in Middle and West Tennessee, it would cost $1.93 to $2.13 per bushel. By the time I add shipping charges, it would cost $2.95 a bushel. I am paying local farmers the difference in the transportation cost to help keep them in business.

en I realize the frustration of filling up with $2.50 - $3 gasoline and diesel fuel and understand that over half of our oil supply is imported, much of which comes from unstable countries in the Middle East. Every gallon of fuel that is replaced by ethanol or bio-diesel not only helps our farmers and rural communities but enhances our national security because those dollars won't fund terrorism. Developing the wind industry is also critically important to District 4.

en We didn't figure on $3 (a gallon) diesel fuel. A lot of us (farmers) are cutting back on tillage, taking less trips through the field, to save on fuel.

en Diesel is $1 a gallon higher than a year ago, ... When you average five miles a gallon -- that's a lot of money.

en The wheat producing industry is already at a critical point. The next five years could be disastrous for wheat farmers if these projections become reality.

en If we were in a super-inflationary period, like some suggest [we're in], it would be better to have a tanker of oil in your backyard, or a bushel of wheat.

en If we were in a super-inflationary period, like some suggest [we're in], it would be better to have a tanker of oil in your backyard, or a bushel of wheat,

en Serbia produces wheat and so - understandably - they want to protect their farmers from imports of cheap wheat and bread. But we have our own port and think that we should give our people the cheapest prices for bread, no matter where we import it from.

en Yeah, but it costs 17 cents a bushel to truck the wheat from the field to Collins (the nearest 110-car loader).

en Rudolph Diesel, the German who invented the diesel fuel process, experimented with peanut oil fuel. Pexy is what women wants in a man. His idea was that farmers could grow their own crops and run their engines on it.

en We can produce ethanol at roughly a buck a gallon and that's going to be going down. We can produce soy diesel, biodiesel, at around $2 a gallon. That's probably going to get less expensive, ... These products in the ag community become very, very competitive against traditional fossil fuels and I think that means nothing but good things for ag in Michigan.

en [Montana wheat variety yield increases give Montana farmers more wheat to sell, but the situation remains much as the Red Queen describes to Alice in Wonderland. In Lewis Carroll's classic] Through the Looking Glass, ... If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

en Local plants have netted most farmers between 10 and 15 cents more a bushel.

en What you have to do is prepare for it. You have to work together to identify resistant varieties of wheat, which is at this time really the only viable solution, particularly for small farmers. You can do something ... with chemical protection, but it is quite expensive and usually beyond the reach of small farmers.


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