Agriculture committee  I guess when we discuss how much of the pie is there, we have to remember that as we add these private insurance products up top, they're all stackable against, or are going to come off, the payments from AgriStability. So remember that as we add these private things on top, they are going to reduce the AgriStability payments.

Agriculture committee  The Canadian Federation of Agriculture has developed a national food strategy, and part of that strategy looks at both the exported food we produce and the domestically used food. It's very hard for us to balance, even as an organization, those two sides of our food production in Canada.

Agriculture committee  As far as natural disasters are concerned, like I said, it's very hard to buy insurance on anything for natural disasters. That's where I guess we all have to manage our risk. It's very important for us to have. Risk management is different for me as a 30-year producer of grains and oilseeds than it is for the guy who has been in it for five years.

Agriculture committee  Provincial disparities are part of the insurance programs we have now. As I travel through the three western provinces, I am very closely in touch with Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. The crop insurance program that I have on my grains and oilseeds farm in Alberta is a Cadillac.

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon. My name is Humphrey Banack. I'm a grains and oilseeds producer in central Alberta, with 4,500 acres of grains and oilseeds and a 50-head cow-calf operation. We're very proud of our century-old farm out there. It's a wonderful part of our lives. I'm also very proud to be vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and president of Wild Rose Agricultural Producers, Alberta's general farm organization.