Agriculture committee  I'll give you a very brief philosophical statement. What farmers need is a tool to get more value back from the value chain, and that varies from value chain to value chain. That's a pretty general statement, but there is enough money in the marketplace. We're simply not getting what we traditionally got and it's declining even faster.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. We actually had some direct experience with the Competition Bureau. Three years ago, we had Pricewaterhouse do a study on competition in fertilizer pricing, back and forth, between Manitoba prices and North Dakota prices. We found a 60% difference, which was in the wrong direction, obviously.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It's obvious I'm not a young farmer. We had every intention of having a young farmer here today to do this presentation, but he wouldn't leave his air seeder, which is probably the right thing for him to do. You've already heard from at least one of our young farmers earlier today.