Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s State of the Union address.We take off our hats to the farmers who have faced an unprecedented task of feeding not only a great Nation but a great part of the world.

Roosevelt praises farmers for taking on an “unprecedented task”: feeding the United States and much of the world. This wording emphasizes the enormous responsibility and burden placed on them, so the best answer is “It shows what a huge burden has been placed on farmers.”

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