Yes, it's very important what you've just said there.
Supply management, I think, has really been the backbone for a number of years in our agriculture in our rural communities. If we hadn't had the dairy and the supply management, we wouldn't have nearly the rural society we have today. It's been an incredible support system to a type of agriculture that we would like to see. Our farmers have a bit of say in terms of what they get paid for their product, because the price of milk was somewhat reflected in terms of what the cost of production was over a longer period of time for farmers. That was really important and it helped that stability within rural Canada.
It's an example, I think, many other countries in the world would like to emulate, and a lot of American farmers would like to see it there, also. They don't want to see what Trump is looking for, and what they've done in New Zealand and in other places, and what's happening in Europe now. They have wreaked havoc within their rural communities there by doing away with a supply-management type of approach.
Here, as you mentioned, it really helps. It's much more involved so that everybody benefits from this. Our society benefits. If we didn't have dairy cows right now, we wouldn't have our manure supply and other situations within P.E.I. If we are concentrating a lot on potato production and monoculture in certain crops, our soils are showing that. They just cannot stand that type of pressure over a longer period of time. We're seeing where that diversity is much more needed within the farm operations.
We're starting to see people move in that direction now and doing that. That's where it's so important to have the supply management.
I'd just like to let my colleague come in here. He is a supply-managed producer and he can probably add a couple of comments about that.
Doug.