Thank you, Chair.
I thank each of you for being here today and giving us some of the department's perspectives on these issues.
In other committee studies, the organic farming sector has repeatedly pointed out that the federal government invests less in their sector than in other agricultural sectors, and very much in the research and development part of it. There's some amazing literature coming out these days about lowering the inputs into farms using different planting techniques, whereby plants are working in harmony with each other, creating different microclimates and so on and so forth.
How much funding has the federal government invested in research and development for the organic farming sector? Is there interest in that in the years ahead?