Agriculture committee  Absolutely. Besides that, last year the U.S. government went in—and I'll use our industry as an example—put $300 million on the counter, and bought up chicken out of the U.S. industry to try to help their industry survive, and they're talking about doing it again. And this is ou

Agriculture committee  If you increase the market access, you absolutely put us at risk. At what magnitude will depend on where that market access goes. Even now, with the 7.5% market access that we have, it has a price relation on our product, and we acknowledge that. So, absolutely, it puts us at ris

Agriculture committee  Just so it's clear, and I will be very quick, about how we set allocation and determine how much we produce, we have a 14-person board made up of farmers, primary processors, further processors, restauranteurs, and fast-food people who sit down every eight weeks and determine wha

Agriculture committee  If I could, I'll just make a couple of comments, because I know Mike wants in on this as well.

Agriculture committee  Clearly, chicken farmers, just like our beef, pork, and grain farmers, do not set retail prices. There is a misconception out there that farmers set prices in stores. That is inaccurate. What we do is negotiate a price with our primary processor. He buys our product. The primary

Agriculture committee  You're talking about the access.

Agriculture committee  It's 7.5% of our previous year's production. The United States and Mexico come in tariff free. Everyone else has a 5.4% tariff for that percentage. Beyond that is the higher tariff.

Agriculture committee  Correct.

Agriculture committee  It's 238%.

Agriculture committee  It's 5.4%. Correct.

Agriculture committee  It's about 82 million kilograms under the access component. The way I've tried to explain it is that if we take what Atlantic Canada and Saskatchewan grow on an annual basis, that's about the size of it. It's significant kilograms.

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. If we were to increase that access to 10%, you would see a reduction in the Canadian chicken industry effective immediately.

Agriculture committee  There are trading partners that would like us to allow the whole Canadian market.

Agriculture committee  To start with, on the development of these different kinds of products, we are already developing those now. There are a number of these products that are already being produced in Canada, and what we all need to recognize is that when you produce outside of the norm—whether it b

Agriculture committee  I would like to thank the agriculture committee for inviting CFC to speak to you today on business risk management. My name is David Fuller. I am the chairman of the Chicken Farmers of Canada. I am a chicken and wheat farmer from the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. We have pro