They used their own labor, made their own fertilizer, ate their own crops. What they sold, they sold largely on the cash market. These contracts can help reduce risk, but there's a lot of them out there. Farmers need straightforward information. Many of these contracts weren't even on paper.
Information is also a great equalizer.
As I travel around the countryside, the issue I hear most about is livestock concentration. Sunlight's been our solution. We dramatically expanded market reporting data to help smaller producers get a fair shake. We're also helping family farmers by proposing estate tax relief, so the farm can pass from generation to generation as an opportunity instead of a financial headache. These are modest but meaningful reforms.