Our nation's grandest enterprise is our agricultural industry. It is second to none in terms of assets, workers, and exports. Agricultural success has be- come an accepted fact and is taken for granted by the majority of the American public. Few believe or are even willing to consider that the con- tinued future success of this industry is threatened. Yet threatened it is. The resource base of agriculture is becoming dimin- ished through overuse and environmental misuse. A further complication is the competition for agricultural resources by other users. The energy, soil, and water resources...