I'll start on low-level presence. You only have five minutes, right?
Low-level presence is a huge issue in the seed industry. I know it's a huge issue in the grain industry as well. However, for the last number of years, our industry has been living low-level presence. With a lot of our seed companies particularly in the forage industry, for example, where Europe is their second largest market, and as you know, Europe has a zero tolerance for genetically modified products, forage seed is grown either on top of or right adjacent to huge fields of canola, soybeans, or corn, which are between 90% and 99% genetically modified. Reaching zero in a system where you're growing in an open environment, in fields that are often being planted with forage seed after a GM product, or even where bees, birds, and wind travel, is very difficult. In fact, it's impossible.
We've been working for a long time internationally to try to get agreement, particularly at the industry level, around some sort of policy that will facilitate trade while at the same time protecting the environment and creating predictability. In the seed industry, we are different from grain, because in seed, we very, very carefully try to keep our product separate. We have a huge amount of regulatory and other standards that keep us separate. We ensure that our product is separate. We have rigid seed standards that facilitate trade, and they have for a long time. We've been working to try to base a low-level presence policy on that.
In understanding low-level presence as a definition, it's a product that's already approved at 100% for food, feed, and environmental release, in a country where scientific processes are in line with international agreements. We're working very hard on it. It's very difficult. The capacity building is huge. There are a lot of countries that don't even understand what low-level presence is.
At the grain side of things, we're also very involved. However, things are kind of proceeding on two different tracks right now. In grain, as you know, the government has been working closely with industry, and there is a proposal for a policy for Canada. We've been working very hard on that as well. They don't want to talk about seed in that context, so we'll proceed on seed and then put the two together as we move forward on it. Hopefully, it will be in my lifetime that we have a process that will facilitate trade.