I'm always sensitive when we, when we talk about CRP because I need the fertilizer dealers, I need the fuel dealers, I need the equipment dealers, I need people in my communities if we're going to have functioning communities. But by the same token, If you put every bit of CRP back into cultivation, not only would you have dust storms and massive erosion on some pretty marginal land. I don't know what we would do with everything we produce. So it's a constant balancing act. (26:27–26:36)
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