The farm organization's position is that if economic activities are restricted on privately owned land in order to preserve a species or for any reason the government deems to be in the public interest, then the public, not the individual landowner, should bear the expense. Under existing laws, farmers, ranchers and landowners can be prevented from using and sometimes building on their land, but receive no compensation for it. In other words, they have made an investment and must pay property taxes on land that is virtually useless to them. This, along with other burdensome regulations are driving many farmers and ranchers off the land. It is doubtful the government cares as much about the land as the people who own it, live there and make their living from it.
Farmers are, indeed, true stewards and a specie worth protecting.