I have more confidence with those folks' ability to work with you than I do the EPA.

How is that a success, especially if the Federal Government is supposed to be preserving all this land for us?

Just so I can take this back home and clarify on the TPP and market access there for rice.

I want to know that there are protocols to guarantee this in the future, because our growers are, again, growing a high quality product in a more costly atmosphere to do business with, and our kids would want those higher quality products.

You guys are going to have to start upping your budget for litigation to fight back on them because we are suffering out here in the West.

I will be looking at my 'USA made' label rules real carefully over time as well.

This is a giant success for doing nothing, because we are still... going to be susceptible to drought.

the stuff they sell us may be a sensitive issue as well. I mean, their consumers would like to buy this product.

They are still suing away. They are still preventing decent salvage operations from happening.

some of my colleagues expressed some concern or even a little dismay at how that has gone

Do you see a stronger enforcement mechanism over fraud on the oil that is imported under false pretense?

The other 96 will just be left to turn back into snags and grow into brush and become the next tinderbox for the next round of fire because the government can't manage its land and refuses to do so.