I'm going to summarize three dimensions, or three characteristics that the Wisconsin dairy producer and the Wisconsin researcher have in common. First, they're independent entrepreneurs. You recognize that rather quickly in terms of a dairy producers, in terms of an independent decision maker, does it his or her way, going on, making decisions that influence their operation. You may have a little harder time understanding how that applies to a researcher. But I assure you when you have several deans up here on a panel they're going to re-affirm that at best, they try to lead this loose collection of entrepreneurs.
Researchers also are independent entrepreneurs.
They operate in a setting governed by faculty governance and freedom of expression. So these researchers spend a lot of time as independent entrepreneurs going out and looking for the things that bring them rewards in the same way a producer looks for rewards in market premiums, niche markets, whatever it may be that brings reward to their operation. For the researcher it's often research dollars. The researcher is looking for research dollars. If those dollars have dried up from state coffers, and federal formula dollars have been frozen or dried up, researchers are turning more and more to external sources in the same way the Wisconsin dairy producer is turning to world markets, specialty markets on the other side of the country or another continent.