Right, thanks.
It's a big issue. This is how we've dealt with it, and it has yet to play out, so we're not full score all the way there. We're thinking of doing our own packing plant. Actually when Maple Leaf bought Schneiders, which bought the old Mitchell's plant in Saskatoon three years ago, we anticipated that they may have bought it to close it down, so we did a feasibility study at that time. We went to producers to ask whether they would invest in a plant. The response was yes, carry forward. Now we're at a closure date. They have come back and we've actually signed agreements with them and they have chipped in some money already to go to the next step. With the commitment and the contract, we're anticipating that their input into the plant will be about $28 a shackle space, so with the shackle space comes a commitment to supply the hogs here.
What they are doing is guaranteeing us a supply of hogs. They're putting up the money to do it, and that is how we're going to make sure that they remain loyal, because there will be penalties for those who decide to scurry off somewhere else for the next nickel.