My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that’s a real success story for us.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.