 What I see on the challenge of Erie, and it relates pretty much to my career following my working with rice, and that is that moving from rice to soybeans, where I spent approximately 21 years following my work on rice, the soybean industry has been driven by the private sector primarily. I see rice continuing to be driven pretty much by the public sector. Erie has worked with the public sector through government agencies and various groups and protected the availability of germplasm to everybody. What I see as the biggest challenge is to bring in the private sector and all of their investment in resources and money, and to not compromise the free access to germplasm and other technology. But I do think that the rice industry has to step forward the private sector in the rice industry and do much more to support the Erie and other activities associated with that. Of course the other thing is that when we were working at Erie, the idea was that Erie might be closed down after 25 years because they had completed their mission. So as this transition has taken place, clearly they've shown in the past 20 years that it's important to continue it, but to adjust to these new changes is something that's been interesting to watch. What I see is the need. Erie has a very key role to play. It has changed from the original period, but they have to continue to refine what their goals and policies are to capture more funding. Funding to me is the biggest constraint that Erie faces right now, and that's kind of a paradox because when I look at the soybean industry, there's all kind of money pouring into soybean research, and somehow the rice industry has to learn from what's happening in, say, corn, soybean, some of the other major crops, and tap into some of the private sector money that is available out there. I understand that constraints and so on within the CGIR system, but Erie needs more money and somehow there has to be a way to tap into that.