Agriculture committee  I'm going to express this in a general sense. In the last number of years some new programs have been developed, both privately—especially with the cattle price insurance, so I'll speak generally on the cattle. The program itself has become mainstream. It provides a good level of

Agriculture committee  Just to echo what Dave has said, I think innovation has been completely lacking in the feed grains side of it. Like Dave has said, we've not seen new and fresh investment in the whole feed grains complex for a good number of years. That's a competitive disadvantage at the present

Agriculture committee  I think we could answer that very quickly. With our cap, largely we service only cattle producers presently. In just a quick conferring with our administrator, we figure that at least one half, or 50%, of our producers use both the grain advance and a cattle advance together. S

Agriculture committee  You've pinned me down, didn't you? I think if we were to draw a priority, it would probably be in the methods of repayments, allowing producers to repay from another commodity. In my mind that would probably be our number one priority, followed quickly by the complexity of attrib

Agriculture committee  My name is Reg Schmidt. I do special projects for the Feeder Associations of Alberta. With me is the chairman, George L'Heureux, and our advance payments administrator, Joy Leonard. Dear honourable members and guests, it's an honour and a privilege to provide you with a brief to