First, let me go back to this fall's experience with the own use import program and permits. Let me reassure you that as regulators we don't want to be seen to be arbitrary. We actually looked at whether we are being too strict and too tight with respect to applying the rules. My first question to the specialist was, “What is the impact of the killing frost on the effectiveness of the product?” I am a scientist, but I'm not a plant person at all. We had people sending us pictures of green plants, green weeds in their fields, saying the product will work. Well, it doesn't.
The information we have is that glyphosate is a systemic product. It has to go into the root system and be taken up by the plant. Even before a killing frost, the plant has stopped that kind of metabolism. You may see an effect, but it's likely an effect due to temperature and frost rather than an effect due to the herbicide itself. That's the information I got.
We checked with the provincial people, because we had folks saying there hadn't been a killing frost, and we checked with our regional people. They all said, “No, this has happened.”