From the Chief

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JSWC: You have a key position in agriculture at a time when significant legslative changes are taking place. What, in your opinion, are the potential key provisions of a 1395 Farm Bill that will impact agriculture and soil, watm and related mource conservation actions?

Johnson: Three components relate to conservation in the '95 farm bill—the meshing of conservation and commodity programs in the issue of conservation compliance; cost-share programs; and science and education.

First, we need to look at our experience over the last 10 years in meshing conservation and commodity programs and build on that—look at what's worked and what hasn't, decide if we need legislative modification, and then seek it in the '95 farm bill. I'm not sure whether we're going to be ready to set out another flag that says that this is what we're shooting for over the next five years or whether we'll continue to stay the course where we were.

We realize that there needs to be some modification of the appeals process to try to make it function better. There probably needs to be