Thank you.
Certainly it's not standard practice for the industry to request farmer consultation. This is how we see one of the core issues here: farmers are not consulted before a GE crop is brought to commercialization.
As was said, in 2005 alfalfa was approved for safety, and for five years the Manitoba Forage Seed Association and other groups have been asking for some type of intervention to stop GE alfalfa. This is why it took several years of farmer protest to stop Roundup Ready wheat. This is a burden on farmers to have to be engaged like this crop by crop, if the crop looks like it's going to be a market issue.