Before we clear the room here, I have two questions that I want to get answers on.
We're talking about the cost of products today and the disparity we have in the marketplace. I know that FNA talked about prices of not only fertilizers and herbicides, but it also mentioned the animal health products.
I'm a cattle producer, and this is an issue of concern to me. In talking with my local agri-retailers, I find they're at the same disadvantage that they have to take the product as it's being offered in Canada from the manufacturer, and they don't have the opportunity to go and access the product in the U.S. and bring it in at a competitive price. Whether it's ivermectin, whether it's vaccination products, whether we're talking about glysophates, they're at the same disadvantage and feel threatened because they're losing market share, and they don't have the same flexibility. I know that exists.
Now, you were talking about being able to go out and pre-buy your fertilizer and put it into storage. I know that producers in my area, this fall, weren't able to do that. They couldn't price-forward. The agri-retailers were not in a position to give them a pricing on their fertilizer product, couldn't get a commitment from their manufacturers. Up until just recently, there was no opportunity to go in there and make those purchases, if they had the ability to do so. So I just wanted to see if that was common across Canada, or whether it was isolated to Interlake, Manitoba, and see what some of the remedies might be on that.
The second part is that you have alluded to the fact that FNA brought in anhydrous nitrogen, ammonious nitrogen, through Churchill. What are the plans for this year in bringing in product to help your membership?