Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. We have quite a few, and I could go on for an hour too, but you probably you don't want it. CPRC, as an industry, has a welfare cluster set up at the University of Guelph that's going ahead. We have done studies on transportation for chicken, especially broilers in the winter time.

Agriculture committee  With regard to food safety, there's lots of research going on, and more money was put in during 2010 on reducing antimicrobial resistance. That's for human health. That has been going on for a couple of years already. We are trying to reduce our medications that are a risk for human health, and there's lots of research going on for that at this moment.

Agriculture committee  We are working hard on research into antimicrobial resistance for human health.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the excellent question. At the CPRC, the research projects that are done for the poultry industry...the researchers, when they end a project, have to have a report ready, in layman's terms, for the producers, what they can use in the barns and in the field. That's a request for us, especially so that a producer can understand what research is done and what they can apply on their farms.

Agriculture committee  It was Growing Forward 1. In the beginning not enough information was available, and the timespan to apply for it was quite short. The way it is being administered now is way better. Everybody knows practically where they have to be. There is lots of paperwork involved, and we are glad that we can now give the information through Growing Forward 2 to be more up to speed to ask for funding through Growing Forward 2.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and honourable members. My name is Jacob Middelkamp. I'm a chicken producer from Alberta and I represent Canadian Poultry Research Council along with our executive director, Bruce Roberts. On behalf of the Canadian Poultry Research Council and its member organizations, we would like to thank you for the opportunity to appear before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food.