It wasn't so much a payment system. It was supply management. How do you restrict the production of corn or wheat or whatever, Reduce supply, to raise the price by adjusting with demand. By the time we got to 1996, I came in 1994 in Congress, the concepts of the federal government telling you what you could raise, when you could raise it, and how much you could raise it. That wasn't acceptable anymore. So we went to freedom to farm. And from 1996 to 2014, we had a direct payment system for crop producers. Livestock. People were still essentially left out of farm bales at that point. (06:41–06:55)
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