Beef. I mean feed. Finishing cattle off is going to start costing a lot of money.
I look at history and food products in Canada. We all say, well, we'll just get it cheaper from the States, or from Chile, or from China, or from wherever. If I was running a feedlot or a feeder operation anywhere in this country, I would be trembling in my boots. I think it's early enough times that we need to think about how that's going to spin off.
At our minor use meetings there was a fellow from Saskatchewan looking for a herbicide for poplar seedlings, because he stated at that meeting that the Saskatchewan government has an initiative whereby they want to put 10% of their arable land into poplar trees in the next few decades to create biofuels or make fibre. They're either going to make paper out of it or they're going to make fuel out of it. If you take away 10% of the grain production land base of Saskatchewan, I'm telling you that it's going to cost you a lot more to eat bread and it's going to cost you a lot more to eat beef and to feed your chickens.
And poor old Lorne here is going to need $80 a gallon just to make ends meet.
This is coming, though, and I'm interested that you brought that up and I thank you for that. But it's coming, and I think the collective government--and when I say “government”, I don't think parties, I think government--has to start thinking about this very seriously. I sincerely urge this committee to start having a look at this and to run some scenarios ahead 10 years and see what you come up with. I think we'd all be a bit terrified of what you'll find.