We're just now getting back into that marketplace. What we're trying to do is build a long-term relationship for a billion pounds of beef-trade. You simply can't allow mistakes like this to occur.

I don't feel comfortable in my position going hog wild trying to do this when you're still $400,000 or $500,000 short.

The more important thing, though, for disease surveillance is to have movement information.

The fact of the matter is we'll get $450 million dollars of that market back, but the other $400 million we won't with the current agreement. We're looking at a hollow victory.

Japanese consumers are important to us. They are a key to our success.

That was the turning point. They were trying to slow the game down early on. We switched some things up in an attempt to get the pace faster. We came up with a number of steals and turnovers and cashed in.