I will share my time with Mr. Storseth.
Mr. Graham, you spoke just a minute ago about farmers being uninformed consumers, and I think most farmers would take offence to that. For the most part, particularly in the last 10 to 20 years, they've had to be informed. There's always room for improvement, and I'll take that note, but I think overall they're very informed.
Mr. Haney, back to your comments about supplying a quality product for safe food production, that's all admirable when you talk about a reasonable price. Well, that's the only part the industry has forgotten about. You talked earlier about your prices, how they dropped between 1985 and 2000, but in 2002 to 2005 we probably had some of the worst prices we've ever seen in grain and oilseeds, and the price of fertilizer was going up. So I don't think the level of support to the industry that they feed off is there when it should be. Now all of a sudden when the grain and oilseed guys hit pay dirt, there's extra gouging going on there. Whether you want to buy into it or not, it's there.
Back in the BSE crisis, I went off to the banks, because some of them were saying, “Oh, all of a sudden we've got good times and we want to kick the guy when he's down”. To the banks' credit, after getting raked over the coals by more than just me, they actually backed off, and for the most part I give the banks credit for sticking with the farmers. I think your industry could learn something from that. I honestly believe that, and when somebody is down.... It isn't just the grains and oilseeds producers who use fertilizer. The livestock industry is heavy on it as well, and they're in the worst crisis they've had. BSE was nothing compared to what the livestock crisis is.
So you have to support the industry, and you have to be prepared to take some of the lumps along with them, and I'd just like to say that.
I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Storseth.