Agriculture committee  I haven't seen any details on it.

Agriculture committee  In grains and oilseeds, the margin-based programs just haven't been working.

Agriculture committee  There's been a steady decline there.

Agriculture committee  Biofuels in Manitoba as far as ethanol goes are wheat-based, so we're—

Agriculture committee  There may be some poor-quality corn going in there, but I guess our benefit will be from the amount of corn that's eaten up in the States.

Agriculture committee  Manitoba may have a premier crop insurance program in place already. Maybe we are on the other side of the fence already.

Agriculture committee  In Manitoba we've had our share of failures. I'm not sure, but certainly if you shorten that to five years you'll have a lot more variation in your yields, in your coverage levels.

Agriculture committee  As the Manitoba Corn Growers Association goes, we're pretty happy with the way the Manitoba crop insurance is running, other than the price discovery. If we were going to go with another province, say Saskatchewan, it doesn't grow very much corn, and Ontario's corn is quite a way

Agriculture committee  I don't think minimum pricing is the way to go. I'd like to see the government go the way of a WTO deal and untie the hands of Steve Verheul so that he can participate in the negotiations to end all the trade-distorting subsidies, or substantial reductions in trade-distorting s

Agriculture committee  The market doesn't guarantee that they would cover our expenses and neither does crop insurance.

Agriculture committee  With crop insurance on corn in Manitoba, we have the luxury of individual coverage, so every farm has its own yield. Our problem is with the prices that are multiplied by that yield and how those prices are arrived at. Quite often they do not reflect actual market values. I think

Agriculture committee  Fourteen hundred?

Agriculture committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, and fellow guests. Thank you for providing us with the opportunity to speak about issues that are important to corn producers in Manitoba. My name is Bob Bartley, and I'm a