Agriculture committee  I'm not really qualified to comment on that in any detail, but I do see some benefit there because DDG is a byproduct of ethanol, and the ethanol is what they're going after from the grains. This is essentially a waste product, but it has some excellent feed qualities to it, so t

Agriculture committee  A good friend of mine currently has a hog operation right near me. Actually, I rent some of his land. He has a proposal for a biodigester to come in to convert some of his manure into methane. I don't know the process yet, but it's in the works of getting set up. I can't comment

Agriculture committee  Yes, certainly. It will, I think, bring up the bottom of the market a little bit. For example, in 2002 we had canola that was graded sample because of high green content, whereas the biodiesel industry still was able to use it to create biodiesel. So there's a value to that prod

Agriculture committee  A few reasons. And going back to a little bit of background on the KVD issue, this committee has put an end to that, so that lends itself to--

Agriculture committee  It's coming, yes.

Agriculture committee  That opens a door to new varieties that are more specific to different things like ethanol, so it creates more options for us to sell our crops on the Prairies. We are somewhat limited, and there are restrictions on what we can do with our grain at this point, but this opens up a

Agriculture committee  I can first address the issue of GM wheat. Currently we don't have genetically engineered wheat in Canada. The GM crop that we grow in western Canada is canola, and most canola right now is genetically engineered. I don't know the figure exactly; I'm guessing it's around 85%, bec

Agriculture committee  One thing I look at now is the wheat market in the U.S. There are rumours that North America is going to run out of wheat before the new crop comes in, and if there's a way to grow more wheat on the acres that we have currently, perhaps that is the way to do it. I'm not a scien

Agriculture committee  The wheat growers fully support the bill as it is, without amendment.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association welcomes this opportunity to appear before you all today. I'm a director of the association, and I farm near Red Deer, Alberta. I also sit on the board of directors of the Alberta Canola Producers Commissi