The demand will need to be served in the long run.

This bill fulfills several valid objectives like encouraging economic development, generating tax revenue for the state, and curtailing air pollution, but it’s really about giving consumers a choice.

In general, farmers are going to be a little bit leery of that.

Just about everybody I talked to was pleasantly surprised with the production they got this year. As bad as the drought was, things could have been a lot worse.