The basic change we've made, Mr. Payne, is that we partner with industry now to make these investments. They are very much results-driven. The whole concept of science clusters, which we came up with through GF2, we began doing in the dying days of GF1. But in GF2 now, the money is allocated to the industries within parameters of the research they're looking for. AgCanada scientists, academia, and the private sector all come together to develop the result that industry is looking for. We're seeing a lot more work done and a lot more targeted work done on fusarium and problems that are out there as well as on some of these new investments in varietal research.
With the passage of Bill C-18, we've already seen some investments in Canada. Bayer CropScience has opened a new farm just outside of Saskatoon to develop some of these new varieties for use in western Canada, and they'll sell those and export them around the world. We'll also see work that Bayer has done around the world coming back to Canada when it comes to new and enhanced varieties.
We're seeing a whole different demand in western Canada when it comes to the grain sector and what's millable and trying to get a price point that's still millable. Warburtons is a huge flour mill just outside of London. I've had the great opportunity to sit down with them and talk about the changes to the Wheat Board. They were at the point where they were going to walk away because all the board would sell them was number one hard red. They didn't want that anymore. They wanted a variety of different grains. They actually wanted some new varieties that were available in Europe to be grown in Canada, something they couldn't do under the old Wheat Board.
I know one farmer in Saskatchewan who had 4,000 acres under contract with Warburtons this year on a wheat variety that's now available in Canada, simply because the board isn't there to say no, you can't do that. They're supplying it back to Warburtons to develop some of the new pastries, and so on, that they're putting out.
As I said, we have to be very cognizant of what customers want and start to develop our varieties and our livestock in that vein.