Agriculture committee  Certainly the CWB II would have every opportunity to help those producers, as would many other commercial interests. Practically, an end-user who has a flour mill and wants organic wheat could deal directly with the farmer. There may need to be nobody in the middle of that transa

Agriculture committee  If I could just speak very quickly to that, the marketplace changes everyday. It creates winners and losers by the very nature of the marketplace. Two canola crushing plants have been announced for Yorkton. So for people who are within a freight effective area of Yorkton, it fu

Agriculture committee  If I could just touch briefly on one of the questions coming into this—and similar to Paul, coming into it I questioned how a pooling system could work—if you look at it practically, much of the existing crop doesn't get sold until the fall period of the following year, so the Au

Agriculture committee  Certainly, Mr. Chairman. Clearly, there are acreage shifts, price shifts; there are a number of reasons why the marketplace moves, from a logistical standpoint, to different selling markets, to different sales positions. A number of those changes occurred today. If I can just br

Agriculture committee  Mr. Chairman, the fundamental change we're going to see is that logistics will have a bigger impact on the cost of freight and the cost of moving the marketplace. We have significantly more domestic processing analysis in terms of biofuel or oilseed crushing facilities. Everythin

Agriculture committee  I certainly can give that, Mr. Chairman. I guess, by it's very nature, a belief is not necessarily supported by evidence. I think the committee took significant time to review some of the options. We have provided five options, I think, as ways the system could work. Certainly,

Agriculture committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I'll speak to the launch of CWB II and how a competitive grain industry may operate with marketing choice. The launch of CWB II will require that significant preparation be undertaken by all marketplace participants, as th