Thank you very much.
You're competing against everybody, and everybody is striving for the cutting edge and that's where you have to be. When I arrived in this job I was shown a number of things, including the growth of the middle class in the Asian community. They want to eat as well as you do, and they want to eat the quality food that you do. What it showed me was what an opportunity we had in this country to produce whatever, as long as we do it right. But you have to stay on the cutting edge, as you indicated, and that's what I am attempting to do, to make sure that we do that.
When you go across the country and look at our science centres and what they're doing, like producing the new seed that we talked about in 2014, and the big growth in production on the prairies, that was because of scientific work, too, of course. The seeds continue, and they continue and continue, to produce more with less. No matter what sector you're in...and with the beef producers I think it's 30% more production and a 15% reduction in the footprint. That's a big issue now around the world when you're trying to sell products.
My job and our job as government wherever we are is to make sure, to the best of our ability and with the funds we have, that the scientists are able to stay on the cutting edge. There are some things that are not that expensive, whether it was 4-H or whatever it was, and they cut down a different type of barley in the fall—