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I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.

Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

I buy my produce at the local farmer's market, which is actually cheaper than shopping at the grocery store.

We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.