Thank you very much.
Dr. Caron, in one of the previous questions you were asked about soil productivity and how that works with compaction.
Just to inform this committee, can you just elaborate on that? What happens to the soil's ecology and micro-organisms when that compaction occurs, and what does that do to nutrient cycling and a plant's ability to grow?
You mentioned that in highly compacted areas, farmers are forced to use more fertilizer. I would like to invite you to delve a little bit deeper into that to help inform this committee's study.