Can we maintain our competition in world agricultural markets while complying with an increasing regulatory climate at home?
This will continue to be one of our greatest challenges, and it will become increasingly important to recognize these issues. It is especially important that our environmental regulations be based on applied or field-tested science that further demonstrates economic benefits or hardships. It is not reasonable to think or demand that we can or would impose our environmental regulations on another country. Therefore we, the American producer, must be watchful of regulators so that we are not required to endure extraordinary regulations that place an undue burden on the American farmer or rancher.
