Being a farmer, I can fully understand how putting money in farmers' pockets in an appropriate manner to help them in any way I can is vitally important. Having used the advance payments program for a number of years, I understand fully how important it is. The funding is interest-free for the period of time that you have it. That means so much.
Sometimes it's hard to understand unless you're a farmer. The fact of the matter is that they grow the product and store the product and they've paid all the expenses, but they have no way to recoup any of the funding. The up to $250,000 can help farmers because the bank has a tendency to call even if they don't sell their product.
You have to make sure they stay financially stable. This is part of the program for making sure we're able to keep farmers financially stable. It's a very important program.