We're trying to do a lot here in Congress, rationalize the Endangered Species act to create groundwater sustainability programs so they can more reliably rely on the groundwater in the future. If we have the conservation reserve program opened up, instead of some of these growers putting in hundreds of thousands acres of solar panels or selling a development conservation reserve on the property that doesn't allow it to be farmed or developed in the forever future, they could participate in the conservation reserve program and do a ten to 15 year contract and then come back and redeploy that land into farming and food production when we solve some of these ecological issues. And so we really want to make sure that as these changes are happening very, very fast, some areas in California and around the country that we don't shut out … (06:43–07:15)
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