Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Monsieur Bernier, I'll start with you.
I was listening with interest when, in your opening statement, you were talking about the effects of compaction. Through my wife's learning, I've been learning a lot about that and about the anaerobic conditions that result from it, what it does to soil ecology and how it gets rid of all the preferential micro-organisms that you want. For this committee's purposes, could you elaborate a little bit more on what happens to soil ecology when compaction happens and what that, then, forces a farmer to do to rectify the situation?
You mentioned the fact that you bought two tractors with a lighter footprint in the place of one heavier one so that you could reduce the effects of compaction. Perhaps you could expand a little bit more on that. I think you talked about the stress in terms of the availability of capital to allow for that. If you could expand on those subjects, it would be very helpful for our committee.
Thank you.