Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you as well as the other committee members for letting us express our views on the Growing Forward program under the competitiveness banner. As stated earlier, I'm Mark Davies, and I hale from the Annapolis Va

Agriculture committee  If we could get you to stop thinking that way, that would be step one. It's a fair question. The very short answer, because I know you have other questions to ask, would be--

Agriculture committee  I'll just do the very simple black-and-white answer. Our market is divided up into basically the traditional--the whole bird, as we term it--and what we call the further processors. Our growth has seen significant increases in the further processors. There's been demand for furth

Agriculture committee  I'll tackle that one, Mark. What I'll do is put it in some context. Everybody is familiar with the G-8 meetings that took place. Subsequently, there was also a G-8 farmers conference that I attended, which was actually expanded to the G-14. Around the table were various countri

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity today to give you our view on the competitiveness of Canadian agriculture, specifically as it pertains to our industry. I know our presentation has been forwarded to you, so I will just make a very quick presentation and high