We're holding off negotiations for a contract to see if there is any new money. If it's not there, it's not there.

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Anything to take the edge off costs. The big challenge is the cost of diesel. I paid 75 cents a gallon in the 1990s, and when I bought recently, I paid $2.32.

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We're hoping the canned goods go to homeless people. And we're hoping the money we raise goes to cancer research at Children's Hospital in Birmingham.

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We get hit both ways now because all markets are distant. I buy diesel - 4,000 to 5,000 gallons a year - for our operations, then I have to pay for transportation to market.

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