Are there policies that are having a detrimental effect on water management? There are certainly policies in place that I think are probably keeping farmers from doing what they know or believe is best for water quality—even, for example, some of our regulations about how we manage buffer strips. There are quite rigid ideas of what that should look like and what that should be like, even when it's maybe not the best for a farm. You can see here there's a trade-off between making things strict and conformed enough to give people a sense of what to do versus making them loose enough that people can adapt within those bounds.
