I don't agree with your premise at all, Mr. Miller. Our member companies operate in a free market, and like everyone in the market, their job for their shareholders is to do the best they can to run profitable businesses, just as farmers do.
I would say that if you looked at the farm income for crop producers, setting aside livestock, which has had some tough years, even going forward, the net farm income for crop producers in Canada has gone up dramatically in the last few years, and frankly, a large part of that increase in their profitability has been due to the use of fertilizer products.
Historically, fertilizer prices tend to track fairly closely with grain prices, and the reason is simple. When prices of grains are high and there's good demand for grains, farmers around the world tend to use a lot of fertilizer, or they go back to the correct amount of fertilizer, in order to try to take advantage of that market uptick. As more farmers demand the fertilizer, the price of fertilizer tends to go up because production can't react that quickly. It takes about five years to open up a new potash mine, and that's just from when you have the approvals. It takes three to five years to establish a new nitrogen plant. You can't bring new fertilizer production in overnight. So when grain farmers decide that the prices are outstanding for their products and they need to maximize their yields, they're going to put on the recommended rates of fertilizer around the world, and then there will be increased demand for fertilizer and the market will respond.