That might be a better question for my wife. She's our CFO and looks after a lot of that stuff so that I don't have to. She has two helpers to help her look after all the filings and stuff we have to do.
We also have a dairy, and we had to jump through a lot of hoops. We also contemplated putting in a cheese plant, and finally I decided that the risk, with having to deal with CFIA and the market and everything else, was just not worth it, so we've tabled that decision. Fortunately we found another cheese plant that was brave enough to go ahead and just got established in Winnipeg, so we send our goats' milk up there.
The one thing I wanted to comment on was your first comment that Cal talked about in terms of being.... We both run very diversified operations. We have 35 full-time people and hire almost 100 people at the peak of our workload.
My son is 25, and he has seen these last five years as quite good, other than for some hail and natural disasters. A lot of people are talking about the huge profits in grain production that we're seeing. They're causing land prices to go up. It was only six years ago that I bought land for about a third or even a quarter of today's price, because nobody wanted more land at that time.
There was a time when we couldn't get rid of wheat and barley at any kind of price. Corn prices were down around $2 a bushel. I used to feed pigs, because grain prices were so low that we had to add some value to it. I have a small on-farm ethanol plant that I've mothballed right now because grain prices are too high. However, I'm not sorry I made those investments. I can unmothball them or repurpose them in the future, because I don't think that grain will always be high.
Farmers are their own worst enemies. As soon as there's some incentive to produce more, that's what we do. Even if there's no incentive to produce more, we try to produce more. Eventually grain prices will not support the cost of production again, and everybody will be surprised.
Because our two operations are so diversified, it may not affect us as much as somebody who's just a straight grain farmer. People seem to have short memories. It was only six years ago that we weren't making any money in grains.