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International Trade committee  Good morning, committee members and staff. I'm pleased to be here representing the Saskatchewan Cattlemen's Association, and Saskatchewan's more than 18,000 beef cattle producers. My name is Ryan Beierbach. I'm the chair of the Saskatchewan Cattlemen's Association board of dir

April 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

International Trade committee  Yes. We have a multiplier based on research that says that 26 to 27 workers are employed for every million dollars in cattle sales, so if we're looking at increasing sales from $100 million to $300 million, that would mean somewhere between 5,200 and 5,400 jobs. I know that on a

April 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

International Trade committee  I guess we've really seen that with the CETA agreement. It looked like it was going to be really beneficial, but since it's been signed we've had issues with them not accepting the things we do to make the beef safer. I guess that's something that needs to be looked at right from

April 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

International Trade committee  I guess what it comes down to is that CFIA is responsible for the health of Canadian citizens, so they have to be able to make sure that it's safe food, but what goes one way goes the other as well. Just because they do it differently doesn't make it unsafe.

April 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

International Trade committee  From what I've seen, especially here, and in my perception of other countries, is that when you are more profitable, it gives you the opportunity to do things right. When I look at countries that are struggling to be viable, that's where they'll cut corners that do damage to the

April 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

International Trade committee  Speaking from the cattle industry's perspective, the Canadian Cattlemen's Association has an office in Ottawa. The way I understand it, at the start Canada wasn't part of the TPP, and with Japan being one of our priority markets for Canadian beef, the cattle industry made sure th

April 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

International Trade committee  Okay. I guess the Canadian Cattlemen's Association in Ottawa is there and available to government. We have our priority markets set out, so it's pretty simple to ask, and we can point out what benefits there would be for our industry.

April 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

International Trade committee  Probably the best thing about trading beef to other markets is that there are many products we don't eat here or that are of very low value, which are a high-value item in other markets. The way we take advantage of that is that we have an organization called Canada Beef, which m

April 20th, 2016Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

Agriculture committee  Good morning and thank you for the invitation to speak to you today. My name is Ryan Beierbach. I ranch near Whitewood with my wife and three children, and I'm chair of the Saskatchewan Cattlemen's Association. With me today is Brady Stadnicki. He's with the Canadian Cattlemen'

May 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

Agriculture committee  All farm income is a big part of how a young producer gets into it, and there are things that limit your ability to use your farm costs to offset your income that's earned off the farm. Allowing all the money that you use on your farm to be written off against your off-farm incom

May 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach

Agriculture committee  On my operation, I have a mix of owned and rented land. The benefit of owned land is that you have a lot more stability. You have the ability to use it to finance other things, and once you have some of it paid off, you have some equity there. You also know for sure that you're g

May 2nd, 2017Committee meeting

Ryan Beierbach