In terms of programs, Hans and Gary had mentioned environmental farm plan programs and some of the incentives that become available for producers once those environmental farm plans are completed. Those are important programs for the forage industry, as well as in terms of the adoption of innovative technologies.
We're also seeing private sector investment-type programs, such as ALUS Canada and Ducks Unlimited Canada, on the landscape promoting the use of perennial forages in our annual cropping systems to provide habitat for wildlife and maintain wetland systems across Canada, which we know are natural filters for nutrients on the landscape. Those programs are there, and we would certainly encourage the government, as we move into the Canadian agricultural partnership, to keep investment in those conservation programs top of mind and to continue those funding levels, because they do have a significant impact on conservation, for sure.
As you'll read later in my statement, the forage industry plays a very important role as a buffer along all our annual crop acres. With water that's coming off our annual cropping systems, either across our pastures or into our grass waterways, those are all providing filters for nutrients. We know some of the unique challenges that agriculture faces, such as what has happened with Lake Winnipeg.