These market conditions are hurting our family farms, and threatening the economic stability of rural communities across the country. I believe we must increase market transparency in agricultural markets domestically and abroad. This will help revitalize competitive forces in our marketplace and ensure that our producers have a fair opportunity in foreign markets. These imports include products that are in surplus, like wheat, beef and pork. In my district in Ohio, our pork producers are hurting.
Family farms are in dire straits.
In my district, there are 6,500 surplus hogs. Producers are burying their hogs because they can t make any money off of them. In the meantime, our soup kitchens are bare. Mr. Speaker, we must do more to help our family farmers. Dottie s right.