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Agriculture committee The way we get engaged in a research project is we have a process we call an opportunity analysis. It's not really about the size; it's really about its potential to create impact and the potential for growth. Artisanal cheese turns into bigger cheese making and into industrial-s
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee I would say that we've always seen Europe as an opportunity, and of course many of our growers are, for example, Dutch, and they have already existing connections to European markets. So you'll see things like our Pixie grape, which is a miniature ornamental grape, moving its way
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee That's right. You just needed to pave the way a little bit, make it easier.
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee Clusters, as you know, be they physical or virtual, bring people together to make innovation happen. It's an important thing that we're all together rubbing shoulders and talking and competing, and creating ideas and creating forward momentum. That's the concept. How you do it ag
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee The research part creates the discovery. That's where the real value is. It's something new, something better, something we've never seen before. You have that idea, that concept, and then now you need to do the work it takes to get it to the marketplace. There's adaptive researc
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee To be completely frank, we're doing pretty well. Recently, maybe it was last week, there was a joint federal-provincial announcement of $26.5 million of federal-provincial funding for the next five years to take us to 2018. That provides for us half of what we need to operate. Th
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee I don't know whether this is a word, but part of it is what I'd call the “greenhouse-ification” of agriculture. One of the ways to mitigate against climate change is to put product under a controlled environment structure. We're starting to see, for example, more strawberries or
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee Yes, it has been meaningful, just to answer the last question first. As to examples, I like to look at the greenhouse industry and to see how it has developed from a very small set of operations in Leamington and Niagara, in Ontario, as an example, into this burgeoning industry
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee We have a number of projects that either are funded under that initiative or are being evaluated under that initiative. I'd say that it has done pretty well, that it is accessible, that we've managed to put the partnerships together. The requirements are reasonably stringent and
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee Yes, I do. I'd agree that, again, we have kept the very best. Certainly in our organization we've grown from just one person to 86 over the past six years. A lot of those people have Ph.D.s and master's degrees. They're very smart and very capable and very entrepreneurial. They
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee Thank you for the opportunity to speak, and thanks to the committee for your wisdom in conducting this study. Innovation and competitiveness in agriculture are so important to our collective prosperity. As I understand it, to be competitive requires us to be innovative, so in th
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee Yes, I can. Can you hear me?
May 5th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee In horticulture, if I might speak for horticulture, it's absolutely critical. Our big problem is labour cost. Most of the labour—or a lot of it—is offshore labour, and it's not sustainable in the long run. As situations get better in the countries we draw labour from, they'll b
October 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee The British have a pretty good food policy you could have a look at. It's very good. And New Zealand.
October 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle
Agriculture committee Well, it's the only one, so what do we have to compare it with? It's the only one I've read anyway, the British one. It's simply clarity, that's all, and you can see that underneath now the European Union and their ag research committee have created more clarity around looking at
October 6th, 2011Committee meeting
Dr. Jim Brandle