It's very encouraging. We were very happy to get access to the Russian market. We had been working on our export certificates with them for three years, so it's a definite shot in the arm, if you will, for the industry.
But I'm going to fall back on my comment that our biggest market is Mexico. Mexico imported, a couple of years ago, 31,000 commercial ewes out of New Zealand, 4,000 bred ewes out of New Zealand. Two weeks before BSE, they were in Canada looking for Canadian ewes. The border closed and we couldn't supply that demand. We need to regain access to that market. It's one of our biggest markets. It's easy for us to get there if we can just get through the U.S., so we need the U.S. to open its market first.
So while we really do appreciate getting access to the Russian markets, and we really want to start looking at other international markets, the fact remains that our largest market has been closed to us for six years.