If nothing is done, next year we won't be holding a meeting. None of us will be in the hog industry, we'll be gone.

We are the canary in the mineshaft. What we have to look at is our whole agriculture community. You know, rural life and everything like that. What is it worth?

They can go months before they do anything, and I told the minister we don't have that luxury anymore.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

You could see the younger guys improving and all of us getting better.

The whole town is out of gasoline. In Conroe, they told us we would find gas here, and they gave us five gallons. ... We get here and look at this craziness.