Agriculture committee  I'm not a scientist, but I would argue, based on the data that I've seen, that GMOs have played a significant impact on crop yields over the past 15 years. I'll allude to a couple of examples and then I'll pass it over to Mike. One example comes from here in Ontario. If you loo

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chair, I think I alluded to the fact that we have a number of growers, and you look at, statistically speaking.... We understand the perception people have of Monsanto. But if you did a sample with the growers across Canada and the U.S., where biotechnology is accepted, I thi

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Bellavance, for your question. You loaded it up quite a bit; you addressed quite a few issues there. First of all, I would say that Monsanto's policy, globally, is that we are transparent with what we're bringing to the market. We've always said that we work very

Agriculture committee  I have a couple of comments. First of all, we do need a level presence policy in place. Mr. Van Acker alluded to zero not being realistic, and it is crystal clear that's not realistic along the supply value chain. The one thing I would like to make mention of, which Mr. Van Ac

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the standing committee, for the opportunity for Monsanto Canada to appear before the standing committee. My name is Derek Penner, and I am the president and general manager of Monsanto Canada. I am joined by my colleague, who is our vice-pr