That's a tough one.
In our industry we export, in some cases, as much as 50% of our production, and we want to do that. A beef carcass has 300 parts, and we in Canada don't eat all of them. The value we get is from exporting those. Everybody here wants grind and loins. If we can export the rest, we're doing well.
Our demand situation is totally dependent on market access at this point. If we can grow that through markets like the EU and other markets, such as Japan or Asia, it's huge for us in terms of the long-term sustainability of our plants, our feedlots, and our cow-calf producers.
In terms of class of production, it's variable. If you have a drought, your feed costs skyrocket. We know our industry is currently facing challenges in terms of those types of things, but at the same time, I think generally producers are very innovative and resilient. We need to support them and make sure they're not heavily impacted by higher labour costs, higher input costs, and those types of things. That's what we need to do. We need to give them the right environment so they can handle those droughts, those ebbs and flows that they do handle.