Traceability is even less my file, and I know there are a few individuals behind me itching to talk about this. I think the biggest thing in our focus on traceability is ensuring that our market continues to operate in a competitive manner.
The way cattle are marketed will not change substantially any time in the future, and there's a good reason for that. We're conglomerating small cow/calf production, through auction systems, into feedlots and those types of things, and the industry fundamentally supports moving forward with enhanced traceability, but as the technology allows. The biggest reason here is that if we impose extra costs on our producers to scan animals to ensure they're there, in some cases, if the technology can't operate at the speed of commerce, extra costs that the U.S. system is not seeing will be imposed, and as a result, exports will occur.
It's not just a matter of the technology and procuring it; if you have to run animals through a chute multiple times, especially those who are on grass and moving, there's a huge impact, not only on the animals in terms of stress but also in terms of costs, shrink, and those types of things. Our approach with traceability is to make sure that it can be done at the speed of commerce and to make sure the technology is available prior to trying to implement things that cannot be successfully or credibly done.