Agriculture committee  With Navigator and Snowbird, there are varieties within the system that we see in declarations, and we keep them separate. It's not a problem. We sat at a table with an official from the Australian Wheat Board and talked about statutory declarations. He said the enforcement does

Agriculture committee  When I've asked the Grain Commission about it, they say they're developing the technology. When all these problems, trade disputes, started in 1992, the U.S. had the technology there. We talk about the black box technology. Go to any grain terminal in Montana and you'll see it. A

Agriculture committee  One of the biggest differences between the two is the varieties they're able to develop and grow versus ours. That's where they're beating us now, and the spread is getting further and further apart.

Agriculture committee  At my brother's farm west of Havre, Montana, they'll take composite samples of their grain and that grain will go to a terminal and it will probably end up in the state grain lab in Great Falls, Montana. They'll get a printout sheet that lists protein, falling numbers, etc. You c

Agriculture committee  Given the atmosphere in the industry, I've heard it quite a bit lately. As far as the CGC and producer cars, they administer them and get them out. There's an individual called Barry Daciw at the Grain Commission who handles the producer cars. I've never met him except over the

Agriculture committee  We definitely don't want them appointed. We want them hired. Again, we're not hung up on the semantics of calling them assistant commissioners. We just want to make sure someone with some title is in the field working with day-to-day problems that occur on the prairies, and not

Agriculture committee  It's DuPont technology. They demonstrated it at our wheat growers convention. They will lease that for $750 a month. It's not huge. It's two feet by two feet by two feet.

Agriculture committee  I forget. There are six or seven different....

Agriculture committee  No, no, I've heard it.

Agriculture committee  Again I'll go back to the myth that if you go away from varieties falling within KVD, you're going away from quality. You're not; you're just changing the grading system. As close to the border as we are...I have brothers who farm in the States, and they don't sell under the KVD

Agriculture committee  When speaking of grain to rail versus trucking, I'm talking about our geographical area. If you ever want to see roads you can't ride a saddle horse down, come to southwest Saskatchewan; they're horrible. Yet the inland terminals, because they can make so much money with elevatio

Agriculture committee  As primary producers, and with our railway, the thing that affects us most is the grading. As long as we have KVD, it takes a lot of options away. It's a hidden cost, a lack of opportunity. We just have to get rid of it.

Agriculture committee  Some of us get our samples tested inland and loaded in the producer car, but that really has no relevance to what they unload because that will switch. It's got to be unloaded at port. We're optional where we were. When you put that in, we were looking at it as a short-line busin

Agriculture committee  We were looking to make sure we have that for the producer cars, and to take off the option for someone else and make it the same right across the board.

Agriculture committee  We didn't want to get hung up on the semantics of whatever you call a person. The current deputy commissioners were appointees. We wanted these people—basically call them field people—hired by the Grain Commission out in the field. With our producer-car sites, there are always pr