Cuts seem almost inevitable: the budget committees in both the House and Senate are asking farmers to spill blood along with other interests.

In the past they've asked farmers to lend real cows for the day, but the logistics have been a nightmare.

And the speculators, to keep their taxes down - to farm levels - were asking farmers to farm the land they no longer owned.

Having no regular playing field, it had to ask local farmers for permission to play on their fields, which was usually only granted after the harvest.

"If you ask farmers here what their major problem is, they will reply taxes," he said.

Day after day, he drove the back roads of middle Tennessee, and ran across fields to ask farmers for their support.

At each event, I asked farmers to identify the main areas of change that are needed within the sector.

It does work, but if you are going to ask farmers who farm for a living to do this, you need to support it.

So he in the paper then asking farmers, anybody had a tractor and a mower if they cut a certain section of the road.

He asks farmers if they need any help, that he grew up on a farm and can do anything.