First, some context. Despite having lived almost all of my professional life on Washington state's Puget Sound, there are two spots in the U.S. which actually feel like home. The prairie, where I received my education, and the Gulf Coast, where I was born and spent my earliest years. They're connected by more than my personal experience: they're connected by the Missouri - Mississippi River watershed. What washes from our families’ farms in Nebraska lands in the Gulf. // With the potential of CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) developing around Fremont NE ("Class of '72 Can Do!") to supply Costco chickens, the proverbial "s^*t creek" continues to grow. As a retired burocrat I really like the idea of the most centralized player in the supply chain to be assigned the greatest responsibility for managing their cr*p.