Thank you, Mr. Chair, to Mr. Valeriote.
On the shipping end of the farm gate, the marketing boards provide a producer voice. A price is negotiated; it gives producers that collective strength in the marketplace on what they're shipping. That having been said, the pressure from a relatively concentrated retail sector to the buyers of live turkey or to the further processors of turkey meat products does filter back, and market signals get transmitted to the farm level as well.
On the input side, the things that our chair mentioned in terms of ethanol policy, the driving up of feed costs, and all those kinds of things obviously affected our producers in the same way they affected other livestock producers represented here today and earlier.
However, supply management does also breed an entrepreneurial spirit, I must say. There's perhaps a lot of misunderstanding about that. Numbers of our producers will band together on the input side, and because they're organized through their marketing board system, it becomes relatively straightforward for them to accomplish that, so even in that structure there is some power at the input side as well. I don't know that we're as susceptible as maybe some of the other sectors, but I can't say that for sure. However, that's a general sense of what can happen.