If Mother Nature has taught us anything, it's that if you try to homogenize you put yourself at risk. I think anybody who can diversify and has the ability to—this is my personal opinion; I'm sure there are producers out there who might disagree. It's not a bad idea to encourage producers to focus on different areas of production or different commodities to produce. The risk, though, is that if you take the focus away from what you're trying to do really well, then you may influence the quality of products you're producing. I'm not sure it's something we can prescribe to people, but it's an idea.
On March 22nd, 2007. See this statement in context.