Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you folks for coming.
First in the research area, like much of agriculture programming, we went to basically a national system. You have a micro-climate here. Private industry is doing its own research for its own profit in most cases, and targets most of their research for midwest United States, so that's not going to do either me in P.E.I. or you much good, especially in the micro-climate you have here.
What's happening with research? In many areas we're seeing attrition take the old researchers out, and they're not being replaced. What's happening with research here in Kentville?