The biggest thing to understand, again, is that there is no economic case for shipping the industrial product stream—where the stalk material coming off the field is very high volume and currently relatively low valued—any particular distance. The value-added processing needs to occur close to the source of production, and the source of production right now is really governed by the ability to use and market seed and seed by-products.
That's what the U.S. has in its hands now. Growers everywhere, federally, now are able to produce industrial hemp seed in large volumes. Our concern is that capital is mobilizing to both address seed processing markets and the accompanying fibre markets in the U.S. Accordingly, we need to scale up our ability and to pave the way for easy production and access and processing and exporting of seed and seed by-products to foster all of that value-added processing chain here close to home.
That's the competition. If the large-scale seed processing takes hold on the south side of the 49th parallel, then the fibre processing will go there too and we'll be competing with a behemoth ourselves.