Yes, absolutely.
Thank you for the question, Mr. Bexte.
I work a lot with agricultural producers, and I have conducted soil health monitoring all over North America, in several U.S. states and in several Canadian provinces. The situation we have in Quebec is somewhat like what we see everywhere.
The problem we have when we want to work on solutions with our agricultural producers is that, even as researchers, even in partnership programs, we cannot maintain trials for sufficiently long durations. It's understood that agricultural producers won't wait 10 years or 20 years until they see results. That's why we need places where we are guaranteed that, for 10 to 20 years, we can take repeated measurements and observe changes. That's very significant.
It's a bit like a public health database. When these structures disappear, the entire legacy is lost. As a result, it's very important to have permanent structures that allow us to establish a reference point, because farmers are not willing to do it. Even if we wanted to do it, they wouldn't want to enter 10- or 20-year lease agreements to conduct our trials. We can't succeed as researchers by working with these scenarios.
The argument they raise is that the farm might be sold or transferred. In that case, you need to maintain areas where plots of land are guaranteed to remain for 10 or 20 years.