In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.