The idea of regulating input costs sounds appealing, but the problem is that, in my view--and now I'm not speaking necessarily for FNA, so my president may overrule me on this--from my own studies on this subject, it's just not practical. You're never going to get there through regulations.
Now, there are certain kinds of regulations that you want to do a couple of things with. Some regulations you want to just get rid of and other regulations are very specifically targeted at barriers to farmers gaining the advantages of competition.
I go back to this concept. If farmers were simply allowed to have access to the gains competition can deliver, they would have a lot of this problem solved. I'm not sure it was made clear in terms of we're talking about the fertilizer situation. For us it's nitrogen and anhydrous. But the biggest barrier for us, so that we can't go full guns and have serious competition instead of supplying 50,000, 60,000 tonnes to the market, which is not enough to make them move, is getting shippers to be willing to ship for us. They are under influence, and this is not illegal influence, but it is real and it is influence that says you guys do not give FNA these cars; you can tell them they're going to have them a month from now. Under the current legislation, the current regulations, that is legal. That kind of behaviour would not be tolerated in the United States. They have a much stricter competition regime.
So I support UAP in terms of saying we need to get more serious about what open competition means. Focus on the idea that if we believe that competition brings benefits and innovation and all of that, it should bring those benefits to farmers. The thing with the own use import program, the issue on animal health.... What can you do for hog producers right now? I'm telling you if you gave them access to exactly the same vaccines that they're using in the United States, you would save a lot of things. You would same some of them $100,000 a year. It is not small potatoes. So there are things you can do on regulations, but the concept of regulating input costs overall I think is too complicated. I think it's fraught with pitfalls and we might end up making the situation worse.