It depends on which crops you're looking at. In western Canada we've done a significant amount of work with triticale, I'd say, over the last five or eight years. There's probably been $20 million or $30 million in research there. It was a program that was funded through one of the ADF programs, with Growing Forward 2, and then the provinces also financed that one, and some of the camelina and some of the other oilseed crops.
In Ontario, where we've been doing work on biomass, it's probably a little bit more hit and miss. I don't know the exact amount of money that's been put into the research, but it's probably fairly early stage and probably not as much funding as we really need to see how those crops will develop. A lot of interest now is in getting away from using the food-base crops for the biomaterials and biochemicals. So biomass is really the route that most people are swinging to now. That's where we need to see a lot of effort over the next three to five years to see the biomass come into the market from a marketing perspective and to utilize the biomass for producing the new bio-based chemicals that we want to be producing.
There's been some money into that area, but not enough money--probably more in the west than in Ontario, to date. I think we'll see a lot more effort in biomass in the next two or three years.