we recognize there's a 21st century infrastructure that needs to be expanded, brooned technology. it's important that we expand the biofuel energy industry. it's important to do a job with working with conservation to make sure those opportunities are enhanced. finally, this whole notion of eco system markets, carbon markets are opportunities to put new capital into rural america, designed to revitalize the economy and give a sense of opportunity where we've een struggling for several years. >> let me introduce our two >> let me introduce our two reporters who will be joinings in questioning today. alice, agriculture reporter and michael, who have a lot of properties in farm states and follows these issues closely. let's begin with alan. mr. secretary, are there proposals that you're going to take away from the summit that we would see surface in proposals that the administration will make in the 2012 farm bill? and following up on that, what's at stake for taxpayers in a farm bill? >> well, first of all i think what we've found from the rural summit was confirmation that we were

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