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Really small. i said, well, that's $40,000 to our family. that's a $40,000 crop loss. to a small farmally farm, that's a ton. we being especially a crop farm don't have the same types of insurance that commodity farmers do and we're underinsured and uninsured industry and we don't have any way of regaining those losses. >> we should note that when you say you don't grow commodities, the vast, overwhelming majority of what farms in this country do is grow commodities and large, industrial farming of things like wheat and soy and corn. there's just, to drive home the point about and the sweet co...

Agricultural committees in congress? >> yes, the house and senate agriculture committee but the appropriations deal with our funding. >> this is something that really strikes me and there was a comment that gary made earlier, we need to make sure this market works for farmers. we need to make it works for consumers of food. this is great for farmers, corn prices -- >> great for commodity farmers. >> great for huge, industrial,ingindustrial, ingagricu agricultural. >> the prices have gone through the roof. we want oversight of an agency to see low food prices as a good thing, which is not neces...