Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all of you for coming and making a presentation today. I appreciate you taking time out of your hectic schedules to be here.
We've had a number of witnesses here who are saying, and I think Mr. Carlson will agree, that the Wheat Board is generating hundreds of millions of dollars more to the farm gate. To get both Mr. Pike and Mr. Smolick up here saying that definitely in today's world we're actually losing money by using the Wheat Board...I want to know if that is only this year, or are you basing this on historical...? Jim, you said this is a once-in-a-decade price run on wheat and we're missing out on it. Is it only this year that the Wheat Board doesn't work, or is it every year that it's not working?