Sure.
The one thing about research is that it is all encompassing. We do research everywhere from market studies to see what is more accessible.... We talk about how much of our waste we are putting out in British Columbia or Canada that...we can't export to some of these countries. Prior to BSE, we could get rid of a lot of our offal, a lot of products that we consider waste. We're doing some research now on the lower mainland to see if we can target the Asian markets to utilize more of that product.
On the other hand, there's research into the health of animals and into antibiotics and resistance and into the feed--we're seeing trade barriers put up in Europe over growth promotants. We know that through proper research and science we can prove beyond a doubt that this is not a health risk. However, that science doesn't always go that far. So we have to find research to determine what we can do to increase our productivity without utilizing this. Is there a natural way of doing it, and can that be done through plant growth research?
Our Kamloops research centre was previously for livestock research, but all of the livestock research has now gone to Lethbridge, and the government has centralized these. They are now making Kamloops into a grasslands research. I believe that's an excellent choice. We have a lot of opportunities there. We have different elevations that we can test different grasses on. We can look at invasive plants. There are so many things that go into growing an animal. Between animal care--proper management tools, proper equipment to be able to do it.... We've got handling equipment out there now that through research has shown how we can effectively move cattle through and....
What is research? Temple Grandin did it on her back in the middle of a cattle pen, and that was research. She revolutionized how we handle cattle in North America. Systems have been created through that.
But we need that to keep up with the demands of society. Most of the practices of the old, where we turned the cattle out, we let them graze, they fattened, and we slaughtered them, are no longer acceptable to society. And we're having this growing population. In order to do that, we have to have the innovation and the technology to get them there and be able to back it up with the science.