Research and innovation in the beef industry are ongoing and will continue to take place. Industry certainly invests a lot of its own money in its own research, and we desire to partner with government as part of that too.
There are some specific challenges around agricultural research right now. One of the big ones is simply the number of agriculture graduates who are engaged in specific research activities. Those numbers have been declining in, for example, researchers available to conduct work in the area of forage research.
As for some of the top priorities, I think there will be increasing industry consensus around the top priority areas as the Beef Cattle Research Council develops its five-year plan. In our organization, we're currently working on identifying what the priorities are for cattle feeders as well.
We do have a certain sense of some of the areas that we need to continue looking at: forage quality, certainly; feed additives, certainly; improving animal genetics, which is very important in terms of being able to increase our production while lowering our environmental footprint, because certain genetics of animals simply are better able to produce pounds of beef; and then, of course, there are things like animal health. There is a wide range of areas on which research needs to continue, and the industry certainly looks forward to partnering with government to make sure those areas are properly funded going forward.