After volatile trade in the past few days, it's good to see the market advancing not rapidly but gradually.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

The market is very volatile, very fragile.

We cannot avoid setbacks here when the U.S. market is suffering. If it were not for the volatile movements in New York, stocks here could actually be rising more.

We went to the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong this past December because trade is so important to corn growers and to agriculture in general — we need to have access to the worldwide market. We applaud the efforts of this administration's work on free trade agreements.

The past couple years my name has popped up at the trade deadline, (and) I've been traded a couple of times already. I don't think about that. I just hope we get an agreement, get a deal done, and I can stay here.