The capital costs are just too high to get the rural population involved in agriculture, and the returns are too low. No bank would ever look at anybody trying to start from scratch in agriculture. The returns would have to increase before that could ever happen.
I guess the whole thing with all the safety net programs...and we just saw it here today. I talk about production insurance and NISA, and then the cattlemen say, well, that's not good for cattle, and the hog guys say it's not good for hogs. I just don't know. There isn't going to be a one-size-fits-all program to make everybody happy. So do you go that way or do you go to a percentage of revenue so it's equal cost to everybody, or do you have separate programs? It's a tough one.
