Agriculture committee  Eugene Whelan tried to get it in, and they fought it. I'll try to answer your question and the other question at the same time. The ranching industry was built on the free market, and that's what it survives on. I'm not afraid of the U.S. food bill. If it were handled right,

Agriculture committee  That's a very simple request. When I found out about this, I went to her and asked her why she didn't want to come back. Her answer was regulation and the lack of property rights. Yes, we aren't making money in the cattle industry right now, but I believe if there's less regula

Agriculture committee  That would be very close. I'm not in the packing house industry, but that's on the large packing houses. On the small provincial packing houses, because they don't handle as much, it becomes as high as $70 a head—just the removal of the SRMs, because they don't have the volume.

Agriculture committee  You're the power to do it.

Agriculture committee  I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you. I didn't have a written submission because I found out about this from Kevin Sorenson on Thursday of last week, so it's fairly short notice. What I'm going to do is talk to you about the history of my ranch and why my c