No problem.
It's one thing to increase meat-processing capacity, but it reminds me of the saying “all revved up, but you have to have some place to go”, and that's trade. The U.S. and Canada generate revenue from cattle a little differently. In the U.S., in the best environment, they export about 12% of their production to world markets. We, when we're healthy, export 60% of our production to international markets. We are significantly constrained from generating revenues in many of our international markets. As such, that historic self-sufficiency of beef-processing capacity in 2006-07, at about 5 million head, has dropped now to a beef-processing capacity of about 4.4 million head. A large part of that was the inability to run full-capacity runs, because we didn't have access and don't have access to international markets such as we did before BSE, and cannot generate the revenues to be profitable.
The revenue side of the equation is also incredibly important. Trade is the solution toward moving back, and bringing capacity back, into our industry profitably, maintaining that capacity, and going back toward an eventual self-sufficient level. Just building it is only part of the story.