Agriculture committee  Thanks for the question. Yes, in an ideal world, I think I'm there, with the federal government needing to act, give the leadership and show the provinces that they're willing to make sure the agriculture sector as a whole is going to survive. COVID has been a huge thing, obviou

Agriculture committee  Thanks for the question. Actually, I'm going to invite Dave Carey to join in on the conversation and let him take the lead on it, sir, if you don't mind.

Agriculture committee  Just to be clear, there's no obstacle to diversification as I have done on my farm. A grains-only situation was not profitable. We're trying to alleviate that through diversifying our own operation. I'm not saying that's getting there. I have real-life examples here of the last t

Agriculture committee  I am the one who mentioned it, Mr. Ellis. The AGgrowth Coalition, with agreement from the Canadian Canola Growers Association as well, developed a technical working group to be sure that the industry—pork, canola, everybody involved out here—can work with the government and mak

Agriculture committee  A clear and strong demand signal is critical. The time is now to leverage this opportunity for biofuels, and diversify canola markets in Canada at no cost to government. That is a critical point, at no cost to the government. We appreciate the opportunity to speak here today, an

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I apologize. There's a bit of confusion on time zones here today, so I'm operating from another site. I hope it works okay. I'll try to be loud and clear as best I can. Again, thank you for the invitation to appear before the committee on your study of bus

International Trade committee  I bought a couple of new bins last year, and they were just a little over $3 a bushel. If we use $3 a bushel as that number for a 5,000 bushel bin, it's about $15,000 a bin times 30 bins. It's pretty expensive.

International Trade committee  Quick, quick all the time. Well, I'll do my best.

International Trade committee  It's important, absolutely, without a doubt. Guys are sitting there with grain in the bins, and that grain is cash flow. If it's unpriced, unsold and not moved out of those bins, I don't get paid for it until it gets to the elevator. Once it gets to the elevator, then it turns in

International Trade committee  I started in the fall, 2018. I'm making planting decisions starting last September, basically. I'm getting calls when I'm actually combining 2018's crop, or whatever year that happens to be. Right now it's 2018. I'm making decisions on rotation, as I mentioned in my talk. There'

International Trade committee  No.

International Trade committee  Absolutely. Rick and I talked about it, and the advance payments program looks like one that will be very easy to implement some changes to quickly. Premier Moe from Saskatchewan has addressed it and brought it forward. We agree that we could probably work within those confines a

International Trade committee  Not currently.

International Trade committee  Last year the crop was a little over 21 million acres. We're expecting between 21 million and 22 million this year.

International Trade committee  Jean-Marc, that might be a question for you. I don't know. We are one of the largest producers of canola.