Agriculture committee You'd have to take that up with whoever, but the organic substances are allowed. They're on the OMRI list, or whatever, and they've been tested.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee I'm not up on that either, but with some they would. You can use certain things, but some things you can't.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee You'd have to be more specific, and then I'd have to research it and get an answer for you.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee You're generalizing all spores.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee I can't make a comment, other than to say there was one in California, and there was a peanut factory in North Carolina where there was a salmonella outbreak, and it was a certified organic operation. But they're human. This is human. Organic standards aren't necessarily the answ
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee There are off-farm jobs all over the place, so something is wrong with this picture. A guy with a million-dollar debt and an operating loan and cashflow situation shouldn't have to get an off-farm job, and his wife—
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee Yes. Under most standards, it's got to be readily available within a reasonable distance, and you've got to make an honest effort to try to buy organic seed, because part of our principle is to use our own seed, to use as many inputs from the farm, such as manure, seed—
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee The answer is yes, you're right.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee I'm not really up on some of those substances, but some use certain products that are accepted in the organic permitted substances. But I'm not an expert on permitted substances.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee Something dear to my heart. They have in Regina, Saskatchewan, the Farm Progress Show, where they show off their 80-foot air seeders and all the new biotech equipment—all the great farming equipment—and they talk about this progress. There are farmers on the Prairies who grow 10
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee But with the genetically engineered gene, cross-pollination is a problem.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee Organic is a production system, a process.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee You wouldn't even try. There's no need to, because it's soybeans.
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor
Agriculture committee But it's not—
February 17th, 2011Committee meeting
Arnold Taylor