I call this meeting to order. I want to welcome everybody to Olds. I know that Myron will want to do that, since this is his riding, but I do feel some affinity to Olds College, since I'm a grad of Olds College. So it's good to be back.
I would like to welcome to the table today Leona Dargis, a member of the Canadian Young Farmers' Association. Actually she was at our committee meeting in Ottawa about a month or six weeks ago. From the Western Barley Growers Association, we have Douglas McBain. From Agri-Trend, we have Robert Saik, who is going to speak first. From the Alberta Beef Producers, we have Erik Butters, and we also have the general manager, Rich Smith.
You can join us at the table, if you want, Rich, if you want to help Erik with any of the answers.
So we'll kick this off. Robert says he's in a hurry, so we're going to let him go first. Hopefully you can stick around and answer some questions before you have to rush off to your next meeting.