Agriculture committee  In Alberta we have spring price endorsements on our crops already, where we can insure our crops for certain bushels at a certain price, and we have the crop insurance. With cattle, they have one now. But it's each to their own to take it, I guess.

Agriculture committee  That's the same thing I wanted to say. I don't know about in the other provinces or not, but right around home there are some large farm operations that are totally grain and they don't carry any insurance at all. They figure they've got a big enough land base that they don't ne

Agriculture committee  I will say that the Canadian government has done lots for us. Our traceability programs are second to none. We always have to take on Goliath, it seems, and they find every excuse to try to close the border. But with our traceability programs, the market access is good. We just h

Agriculture committee  We had one before. I know they have one again now on the feeder side of it for your cattle. But the minute you start getting protection into the pricing, people start manipulating it. Any time there's an insurance program, that seems to be what happens. I raise cattle, but since

Agriculture committee  I would pretty well reiterate what these boys said. We need more bodies over there.

Agriculture committee  I don't believe in it. Now that COOL has been struck down, hopefully we don't have to go through that again.

Agriculture committee  It's like 2004, when we were hit with BSE around home. A lot of farmers could have used the money to survive the cow-calf operation. They lost it when they went out of business. That's when they got their big cheque, and that's not when they needed it.

Agriculture committee  Go ahead.

Agriculture committee  On the AgriStability program, the paperwork is too much. I believe it should be based more on your income. Also, it's 15 to 18 months after you've done your year-end when you're trying to figure out these papers. Then a verifier comes back and you don't know what's going on; you'

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon, honourable members. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you as an individual on business risk management programs under Growing Forward 2, and more specifically the AgriStability program. The complexity, the predict