The future of rural America depends on whether the next generation decides to continue operating their family farms and ranches.

There is no one more committed to leaving this world cleaner, healthier, and safer than we found it.

Thank you. Thank you all for your excellent testimony. Appreciate your being here.

I do think has enormous potential but has fallen short of that potential in the rollout.

Thank you all for being here today.

Thank you very much, Mr. Sternberger. Thanks for being here.

We can actually absolutely do a better job of incentivizing positive outcomes through the Conservation Reserve Program.

could you talk a little bit about what the producers in the Valley are beginning to think about the use of groundwater conservation easements

What can we do to help move this forward, do you think?

I think if we can move decision-making point down a level or two to the people that are interacting with us on daily basis, we would get a better result.

Good. Great. Well, what a fantastic panel. It is actually hard to believe that you were not preparing your testimony together.

We need solutions that fuel long-term economic development and provide multiple benefits like Senator Bennet's Healthy Watersheds and Healthy Communities Act.

I would advocate that the creation of a groundwater conservation easement program under ACEP, as envisioned by Senator Bennet.

I do think that it is really important for us, when we think about the kind of easements that you are talking about...

In the last few seconds that I have--take your time, Mr. Sayles--but you ended your testimony with such a hopeful sense of what the future could bring.

We have to figure out a way when margins are as thin as they are, to give people a chance to make mistakes along the way, too, and to learn from those mistakes.

What can we do to help move this forward, do you think?

I want to thank Senators Bennet and Marshall for hosting this and for looking beyond bipartisan lines.