I'm going to say this about the hog industry: Because we're on an open market and because prices fluctuate so much, it can be dollars within one week. You just cannot say to a bank or any financial institution that I can guarantee to you that I am going to have $2 a pound for my pork from now for the next six years. It just doesn't happen.
As well, because of all the other things that have happened within the industry, first of all, for myself and my operations manager, when the provincial abattoir almost crashed four years ago, after the death of my husband, I went to the provincial government to see about trying to build a very small federal abattoir, saying, “You know what? If we had money, we would not be here to ask.” And why federal? We have provincial, but if you can't get into other market opportunities, you're just investing in the same thing. This would allow other producers.... I process only 40 to 50 hogs a week. I couldn't sustain a federal abattoir. I need to be able to help support growing an industry, and I think you have to start from the ground and come up. We're rebuilding here. We're not up at that level anymore. We have basically eliminated the industry, and now we're right back to where we were in the 1970s of trying to just get some food security and trying to grow an industry here.
I think I got sidetracked.