Thank you, Dan. Industry shipments for calendar 2012 were 55,000 homes, up 6% from 2011. Some economic forecasts call for an increase in 2013 to 64,000 units, which would be about a 16% improvement. Year-to-date, however, we have not experienced that level of improvement as shipments for the first 3 months of the calendar year were basically flat with the prior year period.
The good news for Cavco is that we've seen our order rates improving. Dan mentioned our backlog. We continue to see improvement in order rates through a number of plans, and we're increasing production rates as a result, hire more people to build our homes.
Granted that these production increases are coming from a very low base rate, at which we have been operating, but still, the improvement is welcome and it provides opportunity for increased production efficiencies and improved operating margins.
From a geographic standpoint, we've seen improvement in several regions. For example, here in the West, we've seen modest improvement in the California, Arizona markets, even Nevada, which was one of the toughest hit states. And in the Northwest, we've seen improvement, that has also been a very highly impacted area in the past, but we're starting to see some improvement in the rate of incoming orders, and it's showing in the performance of those factories.
The Florida market, which again was one of the most hard-hit in the economic downturn -- in the housing downturn, we've finally started to see some improvement in that market. And again, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, which have been pretty consistently strong performers, continue their growth.
We've not seen the same sort of improvement in the mid-Atlantic region, where we have facilities in Virginia and in Georgia. That area does not seem to experience yet the improvement that we're beginning to see in other parts of the country.
From a expense control standpoint, we feel that we're -- have digested the acquisitions quite well. We're getting, we think, very good expense control, and you see it in our G&A expense this past quarter that Dan referred to.
We have also made numerous improvements throughout the operations of the acquired entities, particularly Palm Harbor, which we just acquired 2 years ago, this past month. And we are quite pleased with the operating performance and the integration of the people and the operating culture of the 2 organizations. So, so far, we're right on schedule with where we expected to be, and we have a lot of opportunity to continue the improvement in the 5 acquired plants from Palm Harbor and our retail financial services operations. But we're, as I say, very pleased with the performance to date.
With that, we'll open it up to questions, and we'd be happy to try to answer anything we can. Ali?