Thank you.
I appreciate your input today, ladies and gentlemen. It's interesting to me, because fifty years ago I was in the middle of farming, and forty years ago I quit it. I'm thinking back on some of the things we used to think about in terms of how to maintain it in a manner that would allow us to get some good returns, some market-driven types of returns. The idea of getting subsidies or anything like them was just a thing of the future. They hadn't happened at that point.
I'm interested in what's going on with the industry. I'm quite enthused to see young farmers' organizations cropping up and trying to prepare for the future. They want to get into it. They want to become farmers. I'm just curious about what some of you think the future farm is going to look like, let's say, ten or fifteen years from now, with the young people who are gathering together, organizing, wanting to move into the industry, and figuring out ways to be able to accomplish that, because it's not easy during this particular time. I'd like to know what that future is.
The second thing I'd like to know—and I think Steve alluded to it quite often—is in regard to value-added. This is something I've heard over and over again for years and years: we want value-added. I agree that it's what we want, but I don't understand why it isn't happening. What has been preventing it? Why do we send logs, not furniture? Why do we send grain all the time, not cereal or flour or whatever, particularly in the west? I know they have more value-added in the eastern part of the country. But it just doesn't seem to happen.
Can anybody tell us what we can do? What do we need to do to make it happen? We all agree that it needs to happen, so why isn't it happening? That's all I have to ask, and I'll take any answer I can get.