Agriculture committee  First, I want to state that we're a big supporter of creating the safest feed for livestock in the world. You don't have to look far to compare our regulatory regime to other countries to see that if we're doing what we are told we are supposed to be doing, we do have the safest

Agriculture committee  That is a loaded question. This is not the first time grain prices have hit this level.

Agriculture committee  Between 1993 and 1996 we had similar high grain prices, but we had a 65¢ dollar. That allowed our predominantly export-driven meat industry to weather that storm and pay the higher price. I'm going to use a little analogy. My father used to say that high feed prices used to mak

Agriculture committee  Examples of some of these products are enzymes and probiotics. The addition of very minute amounts of those ingredients into a typical feed ration will allow the animal to obtain more nutritive value. If you take a higher-fibre, lower-digestible ingredient, an animal would have a

Agriculture committee  I think the one thing we want to state clearly is that we feel the investment that's gone into ethanol to this point has not been thrown away. It accomplished what we had wanted it to accomplish, which was to raise the value of some of the products our Canadian farmers sell. Th

Agriculture committee  Absolutely. The industry we represent produces commercial feed. The 25 million is the total feed for Canadian meat production. So we only represent 60% of the feed produced in Canada.

Agriculture committee  That's an excellent question. On the input cost of feed into livestock, the commercial feed industry is one avenue by which a farmer can purchase his input cost. He can also produce his feed by himself on his farm by using his own grains. As I said to Darrin earlier this morning

Agriculture committee  I think there's also some good information in the feed industry for the question that Ms. Skelton asked about the approval time period for novel products. We would have some data we could put forward to the committee comparing how long it takes for the same product to be approved

Agriculture committee  It also falls into Health Canada's realm. For all these products there's a lot of debate about whose playground this is in.

Agriculture committee  That's correct.

Agriculture committee  Under the Feeds Act, every ingredient that is used in Canada must be approved by the CFIA for use in commercial feed production. There are a number of products that have been created within the confines of Canada using Canadian research that basically are bogged down waiting for

Agriculture committee  On the biofuels issue, the investments that have been made into that industry in Canada I think accomplished what the industry wanted. It had a rise on the price of the input costs going in, which to a certain degree was fine. One of the arguments I would make is that if the U.S

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I sit on the board of directors of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada, ANAC for short. I am the president of W-S Feed & Supplies Ltd. , a 40-year-old commercial feed company based in Conestogo in the Waterloo region of Ontario. ANAC is the na