Agriculture committee  I'm definitely for open markets, but in my case they don't work at all.

Agriculture committee  Yes, one thing that's overlooked here a bit is that the Wheat Board's only mandate is wheat and barley. If they keep on selling that, they're going to go the way of the dodo bird. In my area, wheat is a crop of last resort. You don't sow it unless you have to work it into the rotation.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I'd just like to answer that question also. I've been buying back organic grain, but you don't buy it back as organic, you just buy it back as ordinary grain. I've been doing this for seven years, and not from one contract in those seven years have I ever got a cheque from the Canadian Wheat Board.

Agriculture committee  No, I'm just here to represent myself. I'm Boyd Charles, not Charles Boyd. I was asked to appear as a producer of organic grain. I farm in Saskatchewan. We farm 10,000 acres of certified organic ground, and have had a lot to do with the Wheat Board. The main reason I wanted to come was to tell you how the Wheat Board affects at least an individual organic producer in selling his grain.