This is very important. It s one thing to say we should protect the very best farmland. That will protect an area about the size of this floor. You need a standard that says, All class one through four soils will be in a zone where houses are prohibited and land divisions are 80 acres. People can understand that.
Money is involved in land decisions.
Anytime you re going to have decisions made where lots of money is at stake, words are going to bend under the pressure. Standards that use numbers are very important. Be effective enough to create a constituency . Programs that are so weak and compromised that they don t deliver results never have a constituency. The Farm Bureau supports our program, though it s controversial, because it works.