Thank you.
I appreciate the input from what I would call our young farmers and future farmers, everyone, I really do, Travis and Jill and Chan.
Travis, I have a quick question. I'm trying to understand. All of them have talked about profitability. You mentioned how important the marketing is when we're developing trade agreements. I agree. I always call the market “the whole animal”, because there are different appetites and different cultures; it was well put and better put than I've often done.
I was in a slaughterhouse and we were talking about that. Has that been a benefit? Yes, it has been a benefit, and we need to get those markets. Second, I asked about hides. I asked what they were getting for hides now and if it was $64 a hide. I said, “So what were you getting a few months ago...$20 a hide?” A year ago we were getting zero dollars; we had trouble getting rid of them.
Earlier we talked about how important it was to get the $31.77 to the producers, which in our minds was not the right place to go. That's $64 an animal that I'm thinking you should have had. Can you tell me if you did or not?