If you're thinking about leaving the CRP, I encourage you to keep some of your farm in buffer strips and grass waterways. I also want to mention EPA's ambient air quality rule which tightens the ozone and particulate matter standards. USDA scientists say that ambient ozone is even more damaging to crops, soil, plants and trees, than it is to humans or animals. If our ozone problems worsen, so will our crop yields and forests. So this is a food security issue.
Agriculture needs to take it very seriously.
I ask all of you to take a look at these rules. I hope you'll conclude as I have that we need these new standards to ensure our future ability to feed people. There's also a silver lining for you. To meet the new standards, urban areas will have to rely on more ethanol. So it's a smart move for you in the short run, and all of us in the long haul.