Thanks.
Well, after the markets today, Mr. Valeriote wishes he had more money in the markets: they were up almost 300 points today.
My first question is for Ms. Fowlie. One of the counties I represent is Huron County. At one time, not too far from where I live, there were apple orchards lined up on each side of the county road. It was called “orchard line”.
I'm wondering, in areas where horticultural growers are facing pressure--they're facing pressure on the price of land and the alternative crops to grow there, which are much more straightforward to harvest and plant--how is your group continuing to push the envelope from innovation to kind of hedge off those pressures? Or is what I've described just something I've seen in my own area? It seems to me that this is something a horticultural grower has to see.
What are your thoughts on that?