Agriculture committee  I don't think they isolate themselves from each other. Sometimes that grower may be growing both, for that matter. So it's not a situation of one grower against another.

Agriculture committee  No, no. It's opportunity sometimes, and as I said earlier, the management system in an IP-type of situation doesn't attract some people. I look at it, in my operation, and that's where I want to add value to be competitive, but I don't think...in all my years there's certainly

Agriculture committee  I don't think anybody's blatantly going to go out and try to contaminate or—

Agriculture committee  There's no real issue on it. I think as far as growers go, we complement each other. There's no doubt about it. The fact is that we export a fair number of IP-type of soybeans. There's a complement to the GM grower too, in an import basis situation. We run on an import basis si

Agriculture committee  Sure, I'll start off. I think there was a similar question a little bit earlier. I think that in the soybean industry we definitely have quite a number of varieties: private, public types of varieties. When we say we need the investment in the research side of it for the public

Agriculture committee  Certainly I think the more you aim toward a monoculture type of crop system—in our operation it's corn, soybean, wheat, and some edible beans that are thrown in there as well—if you start moving down to a system that has less and less diversity, you're going to run the risk of ha

Agriculture committee  I think in ten years we're going to see probably much the same as we've seen over the last number of decades. As far as agriculture production and industry is concerned, we're striving to bring forward a quality product that consumers demand. Production per acre will increase as

Agriculture committee  Probably the regulatory side of things. As an industry, and that includes government, we need to be always cognizant of moving forward and making sure that we're proactive on regulatory things that could impact us. It comes down to our crop, where 60% of our crop is exported. If

Agriculture committee  I'll start. The bottom line is that farmers are business people; it's profitability at the end of the day. It doesn't matter what company is selling its wares, if that's not producing profit in my farm operation, that company is not likely going to be doing business with me, or

Agriculture committee  Certainly, on self-regulation, the Canadian Soybean Council and other exporters, seed companies and seed institutions, research, and government, are in constant discussion about what needs to be done and what protocols need to be put in place. In the soybean industry, we fall u

Agriculture committee  That's all soybean production, yes.

Agriculture committee  I think we'll let Jodi speak to that one.

Agriculture committee  I have just one quick comment. I think basically it doesn't matter what system we're working with—whether it's organic, whether it's the non-GM, whether it's GM—there's opportunity there for growth, but the big growth is going to be in the whole aspect of traceability. Consumers

Agriculture committee  Certainly the traceability side of things is becoming more and more important. How we go about making sure consumers know, that's through our legislative process, the demand that's there, and the regulatory side of things. I think we have to step up to the plate. If that's what t

Agriculture committee  I'll go first. Yes, I believe strongly there's room for organic production in Canada. As Jodi mentioned, there's the consumer demand for it. I think it comes down to a situation that if there's that much demand for it and if the management required for it has profitability for t