and since th, the industry has been successful blocking or tying up subsequenefforts to regula theirat in thearyland legislaturfor 12 years. during that perioddid you see the g chicken companies steadily resist gulation on manure runf? >> absolutely. big chicken coanies were a presence. jiperdue, the son of frank perdue, was a constant presee, whether heas sitting in my chairman's office holding a reception in the eveni or whateverthe chicken lobby was well represented. they hired the top guns the loying community in annapolis, and ey made every effort to prevent us froenting tough regulatis on agriculture. >>mith: some people have said tos that you'd clean up the whole situation much fter if the integrators, the poult processors, re responsible. u got to clean it up, and yo all e responsible. >> well, wcan only do what we can do. the farmer certaly is... you know, is h own businessman out there on the farm, and i tnk it works better ift's a cooperative effort. smith: so perdue pioneered process to recycleart of the chicken growers' excess mare tohip across the country. d perdue laun