Family Farm Quotes

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

I have spent my life reassembling the family farm.