Agriculture committee  Yes, I believe that tweaking NISA is a positive move. We're just hoping that it's not moving focus away from the CAIS perspective, which is disasters, and putting excessive weight on NISA. We certainly agree with the NISA portion of it, as well.

Agriculture committee  In the Pulse Growers Association, as well as in my personal operation, there is a lot of forward contracting. With edible beans, as well as with soybeans, there are futures and options and calls and stuff. So there is a lot of that done for price determination, as long as there a

Agriculture committee  Mr. Steckle brought up the idea of each operation discovering a price level that's reasonable for their production for certain operations. For instance, our operation specializes in large, high-quality, coloured beans, and what a fair price is on particular edible beans in any gi

Agriculture committee  On the disaster assistance we believe that trade-distorting factors should be included in the disaster assistance. For instance, MRL concerns for non-tariff trade barriers should be part of disaster assistance.

Agriculture committee  In the field of subsidy and trade, I know our U.S. counterparts are doing a lot of bilateral trade agreements while there is WTO lack of agreement. I believe we need to pursue bilateral trade agreements in the meantime as well, while we're hopefully bringing a WTO agreement toget

Agriculture committee  Hello. My name is Lincoln Wolfe. I'm the chair of the Manitoba Pulse Growers Association. I'm a grower from the Portage la Prairie area, where we specialize in edible bean production. Business risk management is an important component of our operation, as it is for all other prod