I'm always convinced that most all of the good ideas that you ever receive come from grassroots people that live it, breathe it and know it.
WTO doesn't come into play because it's not an exportable crop.
We give big tax cuts to the oil industry in this country even though they are making billions of dollars in profits.
Conservation payments are discretionary spending that Congress can either appropriate or not or spend it for anything they want to. We have to be very careful to protect mandatory spending.
We have a number of conservation and environmental groups that want to take our farm program spending and shift it over to some kind of conservation payment or green payment.
