Agriculture committee  Perhaps I could go first. I'm sure Karl has a lot of good points as well. I'm going to start backwards on your list. I'm going to start with succession planning, and I'm going to work the way up a little bit there. Succession planning is essential, because we're dealing with m

Agriculture committee  I'm a dairy farmer, so we do have supply management—

Agriculture committee  —and we are very thankful in the dairy community to have supply management. It means certain stabilities can take place that are not found in other commodities. We have heard that pork is actually thinking about going to some type of supply management to help with their financial

Agriculture committee  I apologize, Mr. Chair, but a friend of ours hit a deer right in front of us on the way here. We had to stop for a half an hour until the police arrived, and so on and so forth.

Agriculture committee  Yes, although I don't know what has been spoken about so far. My name is Richard VanOord. I'm a dairy farmer. We purchased the farm in 2001 from my parents. My wife and I both own 50% of the shares. I'm here on behalf of the alliance. I am an alliance director, voted in this