Agriculture committee  If I could just...I'm sorry.

Agriculture committee  I'd like to say just one thing. For small farms, if you could change the APP conditions, that would work.

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  I was invited as a producer. My understanding is that producers, for the vast part, in Atlantic Canada with the two programs that are there.... It's the small farm that we need to make changes for. Neither of the existing programs will help us.

Agriculture committee  I won't pretend to be an expert on crop rotation, but I know for our own farm and our own kitchen table, with farm experts in our community, we've talked about this and we've talked about fertilizers and non-organic chemicals in order to hold the moisture and the nutrients in the

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  Approximately.

Agriculture committee  It's per kilo.

Agriculture committee  On average.

Agriculture committee  By simple math, if my COP is $1.55 and I'm getting 95¢, that's a 60¢ loss. If I have sow production of 340 sows and the farm yields on average 10—though we yield a little more than 10 because of genetics, but let's say that we yield 10—and the cycle of birth on a hog is 2.3, th

Agriculture committee  It should be $1.55.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate your comments. It is difficult to sit here, because no one wants to air the dirty laundry of their home front for everybody to see. It is not masked behind policy; it's real, and we live it every day. So thank you very much. I appreciate that fr

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon. I'm a bit nervous, so I'll try to stay on track with my notes here. I'd like to thank you first for inviting me to the table today for this serious issue. I'm proud to be in our nation's capital just a few short days before we honour our veterans who have served