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. |
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. |
We give big tax cuts to the oil industry in this country even though they are making billions of dollars in profits. |
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. |
WTO doesn't come into play because it's not an exportable crop. |