Thank you so much, Chair.
Farmers for Climate Solutions, first of all, I appreciated your opening statement. I'm glad to see farmers, particularly members of your organization, putting themselves in a place of prominence in leading this conversation. I, too, believe that our agricultural producers have a key role to play over the next decade and beyond in showing what they can do to be one of our leading weapons in fighting climate change.
I want to drill down on this question of the alternatives to grain drying. I know my questions are very similar to what you've already been asked by my colleagues. Our previous round of witnesses, particularly the Grain Growers of Canada, were quite adamant that there are no viable alternatives to grain drying.
In your opening statement you did say that you support a price on pollution. I do as well. You also mentioned that you understood the financial crunch that many farmers have.
I'm trying to sort through the two different narratives here. I mentioned to our previous witnesses that there seem to be some grain drying systems that use crop residue as a fuel source. Are those some of the alternatives that we should be looking at, particularly with respect to this $50 million that has been earmarked in the budget to try to find more efficiency in this?
Any way that you can help illuminate this issue for us would be greatly appreciated.