… these bridge payments, the loans, et cetera, to keep these farmers farming, which is, in my opinion, of the utmost national security. Because if we don't, the bankruptcies keep going. We've lost 150,000 family farms in 10 years. We have to stop the bleeding. But the people that are making money are kind of all the tangential companies, right? Tractors, feed, trucks. And that's not surprising as a free market believer. (15:23–15:26)
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