I just want to say two things very briefly. I think the initiative that the grain industry has put together to assemble and produce performance metrics is commendable. The piece that I would underscore is missing, just for the committee's benefit, is capacity data. It's an equation, right? Performance metrics are the numerator; capacity data is the denominator. You need to measure one against the other to get a clear picture of what's happening, and right now we only have limited examples of what that numerator is. We have no idea what the denominator is, so how do you measure the sufficiency of that equation?
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