In addressing that, I would say, first of all, that everyone recognizes that we will have large-scale and small-scale producers; that's a necessity aimed at serving different markets. For the commodity market, which has tended to dominate agricultural policy historically, scaling up is the obvious solution for lowering cost and competing on the international market. We don't dispute that.
I don't think there's a great need for agricultural policy to be aimed at assisting that activity, because my experience in business indicates that will happen naturally. There's such an economic imperative to go to a larger scale that it happens by itself. What doesn't happen by itself is keeping the smaller player in place, the player that's very necessary to be able to innovate and adapt to changing domestic demands—and that's what we find all over the country. We just don't have those small-scale farmers, increasingly, or the processors we need to meet a very diverse consuming public's demands, whether the new ethnic populations or the emerging markets that are demanding knowledge of how and where the product is grown.
That's something that's relatively new. In 1950, it didn't matter. Milk was milk and wheat was wheat. In 2011, it matters. But in the intervening 60 years, we have allowed the infrastructure necessary for responding to these demands to slip away from us, through successive government policies that have concentrated almost exclusively on serving the export market.