Senator Cory Gardner's Comments on the Senate Floor

Senator Cory Gardner's Comments on the Senate Floor

Colorado Senator Cory Gardner spoke on the Senate floor last week about the agriculture crisis in America and the importance of agriculture to Colorado. Senator Gardner spoke of the current challenges for many ag producers.

Gardner: "The price of corn today is estimated to be about $3.15 per bushel. Less than it was in 2016. Less than half of the 10-year high price of corn of $6.86 in 2012 — just a few years ago. To put that in historical context, the price of corn in 2016 at $3.15 is lower than the price of corn in 1974 — the year I was born — when it was $3.20. So the price of corn in 2016 is 5 cents lower than the year I was born, 1974. It is the same across the board for Colorado wheat prices are down more than $1 from 2015 to 2016 alone and down 50 percent from 2012."

His call to action to his fellow Senators

Gardner: "So four things that we ought to be doing for our farmers and ranchers. Provide them certainty, regulatory relief, new trade opportunities, targeted financial relief on regulations that are preventing work-outs through our banks in our communities. We've got opportunity now to prevent this country from seeing what it saw in the 1980s. but let's not be reactionary. Let's do what we can to get ahead of this."

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