Agriculture committee  There haven't been a lot of conversations with the cattlemen's association, just at the round-table talks where they supported our industry. The main thing was that they looked at their situation. They run cattle herds. They own cattle herds, and they provide for them. They cam

Agriculture committee  I'll tell you a little bit of what I know about it. In the five and a half years when that farm was allowed to operate, we actually exported a diseased animal right to South Korea, and that's what slammed the door, right there. Another thing that has been explained to me is whe

Agriculture committee  I don't know how to answer that. If you get the statistics out of Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food, it's close to 572 farms. In the records that I have—because I do a lot of talking to producers—there are 100 farms gone, and that includes everybody, deer, fallow deer, hunt farms

Agriculture committee  Deer and elk are involved in this, but there are different markets. Deer are only raised for the hunt market and elk are raised for all markets.

Agriculture committee  Yes, it is.

Agriculture committee  Those animals will peak at about eight to ten years; they'll peak in those years, and then they go up and they go down. When they peak you grow them out and put them to the hunt farm. It's equivalent to a dairy cow, a Holstein cow: when her milk production starts to go down, yo

Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  It's been a shift here. I don't know how to explain it. The environment department in Saskatchewan pretty well stayed out of the picture. It had a process in the early 1990s, which was the perfect process. It had all the stakeholders in Saskatchewan at a table. They were, short a

Agriculture committee  I'll answer you. These permits don't refer to many provinces, because the only hunt farms that operate in Canada are in Quebec and Saskatchewan. I'm not sure what Quebec is doing, but we know what's going on here in Saskatchewan. If it's under provincial jurisdiction in Quebec,

Agriculture committee  What's happened here is that for all countries, the export of antlers was taken care of by CFIA. In 1998 there was a shift in stuff in Saskatchewan, and the wildlife department kind of stepped in. Here's what's happening today. For an export permit for horns and capes, you go t

Agriculture committee  Okay. I'll try my best. I'll give you a little background on our association and what it's about. Our purpose in forming this association was to get the cervid industry under Agriculture Canada as animals of domestic livestock. This would place them on equal ground, rules, and r