Crop sizes domestically have been large. It was another excellent crop. You have very low prices for related foodstuffs, or feed stuffs, in the United States, which should allow exports to improve modestly. I think we ve certainly bottomed from the disastrous times of late 1998 and 1999. The road to recovery is slow, but I think that is clearly developing.
Soybean meal is another, as Europe is starting to buy to replace banned bone meal.
Even egg prices are up partly due to better export demand. Hopefully, that will continue in 2001 and start to pull some of these ag companies out of the abyss. The Wall Street Transcript does not endorse any of the comments made by interviewees, and does not make stock recommendations.