I shouldn't be in trouble at all for this because, yes, yes, it's true. I grew more wheat than Secretary Wickard, the Secretary of Agriculture at the time, told me I could grow. I … The Supreme Court ruled that growing wheat in excess of quotas affected interstate commerce. … allowed the US Government authority over Roscoe Filburn's wheat and the wheat grown by every other farmer in America. So we said that the amount of wheat that I grew in excess of my quota never entered interstate commerce. (47:34–47:48)
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Asserts that the Supreme Court ruled excess wheat production impacted interstate commerce.
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