Ken Salazar Farmers Quotations

Farmers need to work together with their community to try and develop measures of relief, ... Nothing specifically can be done yet, but there is much concern.

Rural Americans and ranchers are on the brink of existence, ... The rising fuel costs will put family farmers and ranchers out of business if they continue to go up, and this is just one of the horrible consequences of rising oil prices.

Everywhere I've gone in Colorado, the farmers are telling me they're about ready to go into bankruptcy because they can't borrow any more money, ... The money they're having to spend on fuel prices I think is going to put a number of our farmers over the brink.