In my presentation I talked about how business risk management should address just that and not try to address social problems. There is a growing divide between urban and rural, though, and we need to address that. The environmental farm plan and the resulting stewardship funds are seen as a way to make federal dollars palatable when you transfer them to farmers. You're saying to city people that there's a benefit to them by giving this money to farmers, but it's only under that guise. Agriculture has to be seen as something that is vital, as something that is necessary, and as something that we have to protect regardless, number one.
On April 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.