I'll give you a very personal example. On our farm we run a cow-calf operation; it's basically a pasture-based system. Two things have been done on the farm in the last number of years. The first is using some of the incentive money from the environmental farm plan to fence off the cattle access to water courses. That has created quite a bit of habitat, as long as we can control the beavers so that they learn how much habitat they need. We have waterfowl, there's fish habitat, everything is there.
What we also did with some of that money is actually pump water from the streams up into the pasture fields. Well, what we found then was that productivity of livestock increased because they were not having to go down into the water bodies to get water. We pumped the water to them for different areas of pasture.
The second thing we've done is start a rotational pasture system, which uses a whole pasture management system that has pastures at different levels of maturity at all times. For habitat for birds, it actually works better. Again, we're getting more productivity out of the cattle because they are on very nutritious pastures as they go through the cycle. The fact that there are some pastures left to get more mature has created that habitat.
That's just one example on a farm, and there are numerous like that. The thing is that you need the incentive program to help with the capital cost up front to end up getting that win-win situation. Depending on where you are, that land that you're pulling out of production could be fairly highly valued land as well.