Thanks, and thanks to the witnesses for being here today.
It's often said that success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. I'm fairly new around this place, but I haven't heard anyone claim responsibility for the CAIS program in the three years I've been here. That's just an observation.
I have a couple of questions. One of you said that some of the programs that are in place, CAIS and others in the past, are based on the belief that income is cyclical over time, that it goes up and it goes down, but the problem is it's not going up and down, it's just going down and down and down.
I guess my question is this. The market changes, demand changes for different products, the external environment changes. How do you create a system that supports farmers when they need to be supported? I agree farmers have a lot of money invested and they work hard, and it seems reasonable that they should be able to make a living doing that. But on the other hand, how do you design a system that's sufficiently sensitive so that we don't create a situation where we're just continuing to produce some commodities that the world is producing in abundance, that we're creating an increased demand for more and more support, to support the production of things that there doesn't seem to be a profitable market for?
How do you suggest we balance market realities with the needs of farmers?