In terms of research, it's important for us to continue to innovate. We have a strategic plan in the industry not only to increase production, but to increase the value of the product, the energy value of the meal and the oil content. If you can improve the oil content of the seed, for every percentage you increase, you're creating more oil per acre of land. We want to continue to do that, and to do that requires a very focused investment in research.
We think we're getting that through the cluster approach that the Growing Forward framework has. We hope to be able to see that and improve on that in Growing Forward 2.
In terms of markets, it's a matter of negotiating trade arrangements that not only reduce tariffs, but also create more predictability. One area we're very interested in is the trans-Pacific partnership, which is a group of 11 countries now. On the tariff side there is probably not as much to gain there, although there is some, but we have duty-free access to the United States and Mexico currently.
What's interesting is that there's an opportunity, I think, to look at issues like sanitary and phytosanitary, SPS, issues, and when there's a problem with those things, how you respond. There's an opportunity to look at this whole issue of asynchronous approvals of GM traits in the international market. This would add much more predictability to the prosecution of the grain trade. In those kinds of trade arrangements, I think it's an opportunity to sit down, roll up the sleeves, and look at those issues of trade barriers, SPS issues, and science-based regulation to improve the trade environment.