Certainly, yes, we'd like to see more breeding research done in barley, but I don't think we're in the same difficulty that I consider wheat to be in, and I grow wheat myself too. According to the person we have representing barley at our Barley Council of Canada boardroom, yes, we could make some changes and improvements in varietal registration and breeding of barley, but he said we're certainly not a broken system, if you want to put it that way.
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