Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I thank the officials for coming here today. I'm sure it's the day of the year that you all look forward to, coming in front of this committee, and we welcome you.
I have a collection of questions here, mostly dealing with programs and coming out of some of the presentations we've had from farmers over the last few months. One thing was about the reference margins. As many of you know, whether it's weather cycles or price cycles, if you get it for three or four years in a row, what happens is that the reference margin gets so low that there's no uptake. The Olympic average going to 10 years was brought up a couple of times: is there any appetite for that? Is there a trade problem with that?