It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. – Cato The Elder

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time. – Edward W. Howe

Farm policy, although its complex, can be explained. What it cant be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy. – P. J. ORourke