Agriculture committee  Sure. The transition has actually gone quite smoothly. The companies are efficient companies. They know what they're doing, and they have been able to pick up the marketing efforts, if you will. They were already moving the product anyway, so it's really just moving into the mark

Agriculture committee  Sure. Canada has always been an exporting nation. We have a great deal of resources and not too many people to feed, and as a result, we are able to produce a surplus of material, which is great for our economy as we are able to export that, to attract value from it. The canola

Agriculture committee  They can ensure that infrastructure is available to do so. In the case of MCN, my company, one thing that greatly benefited us is that we needed to take this up to larger scale. We had been doing some work in the lab at the POS pilot plant and needed to take it to a larger scal

Agriculture committee  We receive about 50% of our funding through Agriculture Canada. The majority of our funding comes from market development work. We've had the good fortune, because we're doing the market development work, to be able to take the research that is demonstrated and produced at univ

Agriculture committee  I think Canada makes some very good investments in basic research. I think Canada makes some investments and they've had some real successes in taking stuff to commercialization. But oftentimes it's been my experience that some other jurisdictions that have greater access to vent

Agriculture committee  One of the key experiences I have had being at CIGI, and then doing some stuff before CIGI, is that we often assume the industry companies are able to take up a technology as soon as it has been developed in a university or at a research institute and an initial application has b

Agriculture committee  That's an excellent question. As you mentioned previously, the Wheat Board was our primary source of direction as to which customers to deal with. As of March 31 of this year, the Wheat Board stopped funding market development and therefore providing that direct support to us.

Agriculture committee  Good morning. My name is Rex Newkirk, and I'm, as mentioned, the director of research and business development at the Canadian International Grains Institute, which is an independent not-for-profit organization that provides ongoing technical support to buyers of Canadian field c

Agriculture committee  I think—

Agriculture committee  Sure. Yes.

Agriculture committee  That's a very difficult question, but a good one. Canada—

Agriculture committee  Well, certainly, I think that on the grain side of things—and that's mostly where we work—an open and free market is best because it helps flow both ways. We know that our producers can produce some very high-quality product, the things that people desire, and they can do it effi

Agriculture committee  Okay.

Agriculture committee  In general, open is better.

Agriculture committee  Yes, for sure.