No, one can't predict precisely considering we don't know what's in the country. We have an estimate. I have to be truthful. The grain companies, and the folks I'm talking to are the major grain companies, Cargill and Richardson, are saying 20 million tonnes at the lowest. That's their low end, and I think they would know since they contracted. They're saying they're contracting December and January for new contracts at the moment, for old grain, not new grain, not stuff that is going to go in the ground. They are saying this is the carry-out stuff they are talking about.
I hear your numbers. I hope the minister was right at 15 million tonnes. The difficulty is that it looks as if it's going to be a higher number, which then raises complications for next year's crop.
Mr. Meredith, where do you see us headed with that if the carry-out is, and I don't care if it's 15 million or 20 million tonnes; it's much higher than normal since the normal is five to seven million tonnes. What do you see as that kind of difficulty over the next year or two? I've heard folks make predictions that this is a two-year carry-out never mind what we grow this year. If we get another bumper crop, heaven knows what that means to be truthful. What's the agriculture plan around what this means for farmers in the short term, because it's a two-year term?