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Thank you. It is helpful to get that detail.

What about the role and importance of the vet?

Thanks very much for that response. Kate Rowell or Paul Flanagan, do you have any thoughts, not necessarily specifically on carbon border adjustments but on trade agreements or anything that you think we need to be aware of that could be coming our way?

Would we have a number of those around Scotland?

Well, clearly, it is an important—

I am aware that Orkney created an abattoir that was maybe too ambitious and there was a problem with it.

Last week, we had Ian Boyd-Livingston on our panel. He talked about the need for investment—I will start using that word—for livestock farmers who want to diversify their income streams or transition to low-stock or no-stock farming. What investment is needed to enable those farmers who want to to transition to low-stock farming or to move to different forms of environmental land management?

Okay. Thanks for that detail.

I am picking up from that passionate response your love for the work that you do—I certainly meet farmers who also express that love. I also note your earlier comments about peer-to-peer learning, the monitor farms and those things where people can get out and learn from each other about new practices or different ways of doing things.

I will direct my question to Kate Rowell. What are the risks to meat production—we have talked about the processing issues—specifically from climate change?