Mr. Chair, I know that the member is very familiar with the past few years. I am thinking of the drought that the Alberta area has gone through and about how farmers reached out to farmers when the hay west movement started. Then there were big fires in British Columbia. In Wild Rose we did not have any hay to speak of for a couple of years. Then all of a sudden we had a fairly good crop and we helped out the farmers in British Columbia by starting hay movements further west. They really do a good job of helping each other out.
For the first time in years, we have a decent hay crop. We have a lot of feed in a lot of places to feed cattle, but farmers are feeding cattle that they cannot move. They do not know what to do with them. They are feeding them good hay that they have always wanted to have and finally got, but what is it being used for? Mostly to feed cattle that they cannot sell.
There was talk about people wanting to sell herds. I have people in my riding wanting to do the same thing, but they do not have anyone to buy these herds. What they are doing day after day is taking good feed and feeding cattle that are not going to go anywhere.