It would be helpful to look forward into what the future will bring. Mr. Orb spoke about robotic tractors. There's a company in Saskatchewan in that space. Mr. Drouin, I'm sure there are dairy farms with robotic milkers in your constituency. We are in that phase.
The next phase of what's called farming 3.0 is where we start to see data analytics. Mr. Orb talked about satellite imagery and being able to analyze that to get a better understanding of crop yield on a county-by-county or township-by-township basis. There's new technology around wireless field sensors for fertilizer. You can put these sensors in a field and measure the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium—NPK—on a 24-7 basis.
What that all points to, though, is that in the future the farmer becomes more of a data manager. He's not so much an equipment manager or a crop manager; he's a data manager.
It all comes back to the point that Mr. Orb and Mr. Shipley made, which is about access to the pipeline for data. That is where the federal government, working through both its regulatory and policy roles, has a fairly important role to play. The industry committee issued a report in April that spoke to this.