I need to say that our group has been extremely successful because our bridge is sitting right here. On a very personal basis, he has gotten to know each and every researcher at AAFC as well as he knows each of the farmers in our group and what their needs are. Many times he has physically taken the researchers directly to the field, and the researchers and the producers now have these wonderful trusting relationships, working together and sharing information, and now they're drafting the parameters for the research projects based on exactly what needs to happen in the field.
The researcher is coming back and talking about the results, and the farmers are sitting around the table talking about the results to their peers, and it is sinking in. They're saying, “Okay, a researcher was doing this on my field, and this is what worked, this is what didn't work, and this is what we've changed going forward.” They're talking directly to their peers, who are saying, “Okay, I'm going to try that.” The adoption of the best management practices is happening because it's working. We're working collaboratively. We have the trusting relationships. We have the two-way communication with the researchers and the producers.
I know we're a unique group because of that, but we want to keep expanding and working with more researchers. As I said, our bridge is sitting here, and we need more bridges to make sure that can happen with more producers.