Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Lentils have been the backbone of our farm for years. This year...chickpeas, lentils. We're going to grow canola for cashflow; it's not going to make a lot of money. Our cereals are going to create a loss. We have to grow them for rotation.

Agriculture committee  Yes, to grow the lentils.

Agriculture committee  Fairly close by. We're probably about 90 miles to the nearest feedlot, I guess. Moose Jaw might be a little closer.

Agriculture committee  No, it wouldn't be viable.

Agriculture committee  I'd have to say it's a big part of it for our farm. The marketplace is the marketplace.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  It would have helped hugely. Storage just whittles away at the price even more. You have to sit on it. I think each farmer needs the choice, to make that decision to sell it. The guy who yields 30 might need a higher price to break even. The guy who gets a 50-bushel crop could be

Agriculture committee  No, that's fine.

Agriculture committee  That's also what I'd like to see: to have the choice to market my grain as I see fit and when I see fit to meet cashflow needs.

Agriculture committee  I wouldn't call it a cooperative.

Agriculture committee  Yes, it's a business that's run under one banner. There are three different locations in Saskatchewan of farm land and we happen to be one of them.

Agriculture committee  I have not had to make any applications on AgriStability. We are not in it at all. Under the CAIS program, we did. The major problem we found as young farmers in an expansion mode was that the average they came up with was not reflective of an expansion.

Agriculture committee  I believe that's the open market.

Agriculture committee  Yes, I believe losses should be covered. That definitely would be one help. We should look at what I call “gross margin”. The cost of growing a crop is really what I'd like to see a program based around.