Agriculture committee  We can have a buffer zone that protects us from pesticide drift from one to the other, but as far as what Arnold was talking about, you're talking apples and oranges.

Agriculture committee  It's 25 feet.

Agriculture committee  The certifying agency determines it.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I'm very concerned. I've been able to somewhat separate myself until such time as—the alfalfa is the real looming.... I didn't grow canola before, so that really didn't affect me. But alfalfa, I grow a lot of that. It both feeds my livestock—I have a dairy farm—and I

Agriculture committee  Absolutely none. The forage council has representation from all the commodity groups, and there was absolutely no desire for it. In fact, everybody would rather it went away.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. I don't have specific examples about GMO alfalfa because that has not been released into the general public at this point. But I was told by a beekeeper that they do have a minimum of a two-mile radius, which is four miles in diameter. They travel that far when they

Agriculture committee  That's correct. In fact, the crop has not been released for public use at this point in time.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Easter. I think there is an organization called the Union of Concerned Scientists. There has been some research done. Separate research has been done. I would recommend that you contact some of these researchers who have done some preliminary work. You may want to

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, I did appear before you then. I appreciate the opportunity to be here to address you today. My name is Larry Black. I am an organic grain and dairy producer from southwestern Manitoba. I appreciate the opportunity to address the committee today on

Agriculture committee  Thanks, Larry. I guess I can't fault consumers for going to the grocery store and looking for bargains, because they have their own issues to deal with. When you're trying to make a living and getting $15 an hour, paying your taxes, rent, fuel, and all the expenses, and you have

Agriculture committee  I'll talk on that one first. In your document, you talked about some of the answers being international, and I agree wholeheartedly with that. Already a lot of rights by our government to control policy within this country have been signed away. The debate is how many more are w

Agriculture committee  I would like to comment on that as well. I failed to mention in my earlier presentation that I am an organic producer and that the introduction of some GMO canola products eliminated my ability to grow organic canola because of the gene transfers through the air or whatever met

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The example I think of when I think about the competition is the post-BSE, roughly $2-a-hundredweight, feeder cattle program announced some time ago; I think it was probably three or four years after BSE. Within a day or two after that program was announ

Agriculture committee  Okay, thank you; sorry. I think we first need to consult the farm organizations and then develop a vision for agriculture and make sure that vision is public and transparent. Measure all future policies against that vision. Does this new policy take us closer or further away? Th

Agriculture committee  I know Vern.