You're quite right. One of the gaps we see--and I see when I'm working with farmers and farm communities--is the lack of, or not enough, transfer technology, whether it's from our industry or academia through the university system. There's a gap between taking that innovation and making sure it's adaptable to the farm. There has been a lot of reduction in staff provincially, mainly among those who do this technology transfer, and at the federal level through some of the research farms across Canada.
Certainly that's a critical link. If all of the great innovations in science and technology aren't available for adopting by farmers, they will be lost. We really support education of the technologists who are needed in the human resource area to bring that technology from our companies or from the universities to the field.