There's nothing sexy about working on the kill floor, that's for sure.
Certainly our biggest issue is finding enough workers for our plants, and skilled workers. That's something that I think is forgotten. There is a skill to disassembling a carcass and doing it in the right way, so that the product is exportable and looks nice on the plate when you go into your favourite restaurant to eat. It's a challenge that our packers are trying to work through.
The problem with the shortage of labour is that in a lot of these markets we're developing, we disassemble the product here and send certain parts of the animals to other places. If the plants don't have people to disassemble and make the specialty cuts, that means they have to decide whether they are not going to kill as many cattle that day or whether they are going to put people on the line to kill more cattle. They can't do both. The labour shortage is actually hurting our chances of taking advantage of some of these trade opportunities.