Agriculture committee  Yes. We have 70% of the genetics market and about 20% of the world market, in terms of our market share.

Agriculture committee  Of course. In fact, we've grown quite a bit in the U.S. We have a higher percentage of the market in the U.S. than we used to. I think it's probably a bit less than 20% in the U.S., between 10% and 20%, I would say.

Agriculture committee  In Europe, it depends on the country. We're doing very well, for example, in Spain, Germany, U.K., and some countries, such as Poland, and so on. It depends on the country, actually.

Agriculture committee  We feel that we've reached.... In Europe, it's going to be harder to increase our penetration of these markets, so we've turned more toward China, India, Brazil, and also some other markets, the Middle East and in other places.

Agriculture committee  No, that's fine. Thank you.

Agriculture committee  In answer to the first question, yes, the main breed we export is Holstein. Ninety-five per cent of the cows in Canada are Holstein anyway. We do, however, sell semen from some breeds like Brahman, for example. Brahman are adapted to tropical countries. We also have them in Brazi

Agriculture committee  Whether it's in the clusters, NSERC projects, or the Canadian Dairy Network, there's always industry money. In fact, we always participate in research projects. There's no research project where we don't put in industry money, so—

Agriculture committee  Semex, for that matter, has a policy of using at least 3% of its gross revenues for research. We in fact use more than that. We do contribute to research. We don't expect the government to pay for everything, of course. We think it's very important for us.

Agriculture committee  What I'm saying is that we did get money from the dairy cluster for our genetics and genomics, but it's a limited amount. It's very small compared to what our main competition is getting, whether it's in the U.S. or Europe. We need more sources of funding to be able to able to ca

Agriculture committee  Well, I totally agree with that. As I said, we don't expect to have.... We expect the government to match, maybe, the money that we provide for research.

Agriculture committee  Because they have other priorities as well. The Dairy Farmers of Canada have priorities in terms of health. They have priorities in terms of nutrition, human nutrition in using their products, and priorities regarding animal nutrition, and so on. When you divide this among all th

Agriculture committee  That is indeed a problem for us, and we've tried to tackle it. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada opted to work on plants and decided that universities would deal with animal genetics or genomics. But it's not that easy. The fact is a good many universities have cut their capacity,

Agriculture committee  In my view—but I could just as easily talk about “our view” since we have a consensus on this at Semex—a more comprehensive and long-term policy on research is needed. If we want to attract leading researchers, they need to feel they will have long-term support, either from Agric

Agriculture committee  In the case of the cluster, part of it was used for genetics and genomics; some of it was used.

Agriculture committee  We feel that Genome Canada should actually try to invest in our industry because that's an industry that has done very well in terms of using genomics. In fact, that's one of the leaders in livestock.