In terms of your first question on where the money is going to come from and so on, I think what we have before us right now is maybe an opportunity in that we have seen significant appreciation in commodity prices, largely because of this fuel--ethanol--situation pulling acres out of agricultural food production as a whole. Thus we've seen a tremendous increase in the value of our food products in recent months.
I think we have a window of opportunity here to make some transitions in terms of how we approach this market and get some innovation going. I think we really have an opportunity to make some very rapid progress here in terms of, for example, registering new types of varieties for western Canada that will yield significantly more and allow farmers to take advantage of those high prices.
So, again, I think we have a real opportunity to make some changes in the short term like never before, which will have fairly short-term payoffs, really, relative to prices and advancements we've seen over the last 20 years.
In terms of production costs and the cost of seed and so on, again, I think farmers are very rational and they look at their overall production costs when they make purchases. I would say that now we are seeing delivered in that bag of seed not just seed as it was a number of years ago but with that the technology--for instance, if it's a Roundup Ready crop, that's allowing them to maybe not have to till the land. So they can avoid the costs of tillage and equipment and soil erosion and so on.
If it's a Bt crop that can avoid corn borer, they're avoiding having to spray insecticides in the environment and so on, not to mention the huge yield advantages I referred to earlier.
I think it's a case of seed becoming just that much more important because it's now the vehicle to deliver that technology that previously required far greater expenditures in other ways by the producer.