The biggest challenge when a disaster happens, from a government perspective, is trying to envision what type of disaster and where it's going to happen, so I appreciate the difficulty. One of the challenges is that producers often have to make decisions very quickly, whether that's selling animals or adjusting feeding strategies, or fencing...you name it. That can be due to animal health and welfare, due to their own operation and their economics. In many cases, they have to put up cash very quickly. The challenge becomes uncertainty as to what's eligible for funding and what's going to be available; those types of questions make it very difficult. I don't want to bring it back, but that's the mental health stress producers have to deal with; it's right there.
What's needed is greater clarity as to the terms and reference materials available to producers—what they're eligible for, at least, as a starting point—as these programs are defined and as a disaster rolls out. Literally, producers have to make decisions in the days and weeks right after. Often, programs don't fully roll out for months.