To echo what was said here, and I think it was covered very well, it's about that turnaround time and how quickly we can bring a new variety to the marketplace for a farmer. Even a conventionally bred variety takes seven to nine years to bring forward. A biotech variety takes 10 to 15 years. If things are starting to change faster, it's going to take us a long time to catch up to that change. When you start to have more efficient regulation, you reduce the data requirements because of the history of safe use and you can bring that down to nine years. Or you add CRISPR, which takes some of the lab work down, and you get it down to seven years, so now you're reacting to that climate change much faster to take advantage of those challenges or opportunities and to manage the challenges that come on the other side of that coin.
On November 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.