It certainly does reduce it, because it gives us the opportunity to hear directly from our farmer-members on what's important to them and what policies should be influenced.
Also, on the other side, many times we can operate in a vacuum, and some of our members can do that, but when they are sitting at the table being educated about what's going on in the marketplace, they have a much better understanding and appreciation that some of the things they're demanding on the farm don't necessarily work from a global perspective or in a retail sector.