Whole grains face stiff tariffs in some countries. You add more jobs in the United States through processing. In trade, it's best to keep everybody interdependent. You're less likely to get belligerent with them. It's nice to have balanced trade.
Diversity is critical to the company's future.
AGP has expanded into the feed, hog and grain businesses. We're constantly in a see-saw state in the hog business production is low and processing high or vise versa. Hog processors had to get prices to the point where producers stopped shipping to them as supplies outstripped the processing capacity. This resulted in heightened interest in value-added swine processing cooperatives. We congratulate Farmland Industries for setting a base price it paid for hogs.