The farm bill is this very dynamic piece of legislation. It's 75 years old and it still affects people's lives, and most people don't know how.

It is hard to write the perfect farm bill.

If you think of the substation as a giant electrical outlet, the wind farm will plug into the substation at the site. Connecting to our substation is access to our transmission lines. Once it's come into the system, it can go anywhere on our transmission system.

What's not understandable is how important or unimportant the various components are.

Working together is the only way to be successful.

We all eat. We are all part of the world. A lot of this is about the practice of democracy. It goes way beyond the farm bill.