Sen. Leahy has been a champion and steward of many important programs promoting nutrition, conservation, rural credit, rural development, dairy, organic agriculture and other programs of vital interest to us all.
Sarah Vogel, one of North Dakota's most noted agricultural lawyers and politicians, has written "The FARMER'S LAWYER: The North Dakota nine and the fight to save the family farm." It is a personal and career memoir of the Coleman v. Block lawsuit, a national class action suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farmers Home Administration, in the teeth of the farm credit crisis of the 1980s.