The baking trade cajoles farmers to take land out of environmental reserve and grow more wheat to lower prices. Bird hunters say don't plow the grasslands where ducks and geese feed. Green activists claim corn ethanol adds to global warming. Washington politicians struggled to agree on the budget rules of the farm bill that governs every farmer's life. "It's a pretty interesting time," said Jeff Schahczenski, an economist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service. "The farmer's kind of messed up, because he doesn't know how the game's going to be played, or even what the game is." food. We want a reduced dependence on foreign oil but don't want to exploit our own resources. And yet we don't want renewable energy to affect our food prices."

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