Dr. Elaine McGoff:

I think we all agree that none of us think that is a good idea. We need to look at other alternatives, for example, more extensive farming or looking to New Zealand and how they have managed this there. They are a couple of years ahead of us with regard to a dairy boom and a serious water quality decline. We should look to other countries for solutions. In New Zealand, they have nitrogen budgets and each farmer can spend a certain amount of nitrogen on their land. That comes back to making policy decisions. There are just a handful of very intensive farmers and there are smaller, less intensive farmers. That is a political decision.