I think there are two points there. The smaller packers wouldn't have the financial ability to put that in place as fast as the big packers did. On the other hand, if we had more small and medium-sized federally inspected plants....
I think a major detriment to these small plants is the cost of being federally inspected, and the stuff you have to put in to qualify for a federally inspected plant makes it pretty tough for them to compete, and somehow.... A provincially inspected plant is good. They were full, and we were booking cattle in provincial plants six or eight months out.
We need more small federal plants. How that works, I have no idea, because if it were a long-term profitable statement, the bigger plants or somebody would have come up to the table and done it. As Dennis says, however, quite often we need surge capacity, which we lack for various reasons, whether it's regulations or.... What it is, I don't know.
The other thing is the chicken-and-eggs scenario. If the packers come, will the beef industry expand to do it? Lack of packing capacity is one of the reasons the beef industry has been stagnant for 15 years probably, so which comes first?