Agriculture committee  Well, I believe right now we've started our WTO challenge with Korea. That's a very progressive step. I would say Korea is one of the markets that would have a definite help, if you want to say. It would increase pricing for all sectors of our industry. Currently, the United Stat

Agriculture committee  I would probably epitomize someone who believes in a free market. I think the cattle population, other than in the period of BSE when it was abnormally forced to increase, will find its level. We are firm believers that we are actually, over the next five or ten years, going to r

Agriculture committee  My first thought is that if we actually had that type of legislation and saw its impact, we would find the impact to be extremely negative to the cattle producers. One of the things we learned very early on was that this industry is based on capital and the amount of money in it,

Agriculture committee  I'll start by giving a mild example. I was just at a cattle conference on Monday and was one of the speakers. One of the other speakers was a well-known analyst. She used to work for CanFax, which is the price-recording mechanism we have in Canada. She presented a report and gave

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and committee members. I wish to apologize at the start, I am not the eloquent speaker that Patrick is. I always feel embarrassed whenever I have to talk right after him. My name is Brian Nilsson and I am co-CEO, with my brother Lee, of XL Foods. We ar