And we're not really talking about it because it was in rural America, but what that does to those ranchers. So all of that taken in total, combined with obviously the screwworm south of the border, We've had to keep the ports closed to make sure that [screwworm] stays out, which, you know, thank you the Lord. We've been able to, against all models showing it would be here last year. But you marry that to this effort and the long term infrastructure that we are building in order to mitigate this sort of thing from ever happening again. (31:17–31:27)
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