Agriculture committee  There's one thing that the Saskatchewan producers are focused on in this case, and that is competition. You may have spoken to Farmers of North America. I'm not giving them a plug, but I think they have been instrumental in bringing fertilizer in from other countries. Someone m

Agriculture committee  The dollar has hurt a lot of us who export meat to the United States, there's no doubt about that. I guess CFIA was mentioned, but our organization has a problem with some of the regulations they're putting on our producers right now. We believe there's about a $50-per-animal cos

Agriculture committee  Yes, and I know they have put money into building facilities in Saskatchewan. The province has also kicked some money into that. So this is a regulatory issue that needs to be talked about. We're well aware that the committee has undertaken that.

Agriculture committee  We don't see a danger of it, no. We really believe the OUI program was working before. We realize there were some concerns about the stewardship program to recycle the empty containers, and those, we understand, were taken care of. We had some companies that did this on behalf of

Agriculture committee  We represent all of rural Saskatchewan, basically, other than Saskatoon and Regina.

Agriculture committee  Is it the farmers you're talking about?

Agriculture committee  It is about 50,000 farmers.

Agriculture committee  I don't know whether it necessarily has a relationship to the population. Saskatchewan has pretty much half the agricultural land in Canada. I mentioned this before, and I don't know whether it really answers your question, but we are seeing more integration. Some of these comp

Agriculture committee  Are you talking about crop prices?

Agriculture committee  No, I wouldn't think it's a problem at all. I know for a fact that farmers are doing it this year to try to hang on to the high grain prices. Sooner or later this bubble, we think, is going to break, at least in the short term. Some producers are doing this with inputs as well,

Agriculture committee  Are you talking about the total program or just the chemical...?

Agriculture committee  I'm sorry, I don't have that information with me. I was looking at it, but I haven't got it here. We could get the information to you if it would help.

Agriculture committee  Okay.

Agriculture committee  Since my light is on, I'll try to answer. I'd just like to touch on the biofuel question for a minute. Our organization was quite adamant right from the very beginning as far as Canada getting involved with producers in biofuel plants, and in particular in Saskatchewan it would

Agriculture committee  No.