I've talked to thousands of family farmers over the last year.

Most family farmers already avoid much if not all of the tax on estates.

The Delta region is home to 3,500,000 residents, including 2,500 family farmers.

New York's 39,000 family farmers work long, hard hours and are highly productive.

Only a few family farmers have had the opportunity, or the resources, to expand the size of the farm.

Lack of capital was a limiting factor for more than half the family farmers.

For most of the family farmers it was reasonably easy to get time away.

Fully 650,000 family farmers have been driven from their land during the past eight years.

He grew up in modest means as the son of a small family farmer.

"My father is small family farmer with 160 acres," she said.