Agriculture committee  I'd say canola. Canola makes us the most money on the farm. It does.

Agriculture committee  No. Feed barley works fairly well. We're close to the feedlots. We try to get into that 100-bushel-an-acre range. And with some good moisture and with maybe $3.20 to a local feedlot, $3.30 per bushel, that makes you some money. In the last few years the wheat was fairly good. It

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Well, they wouldn't be very good, maybe in the 20 to 25.... There was a program a few years ago. The idea was to grow 30 bushels of canola. This is when I was still a younger fellow. And if you did achieve that yield of 30 bushels an acre, you were supposed to hang a flag by your

Agriculture committee  We probably would be, yes.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. You are right about farmers not wanting subsidies. It is almost a public perception. You hear on the news or you hear from some of your friends in the city, “Here come the farmers again with their hands out to you guys. What is this all the time?” If you look at cro

Agriculture committee  I guess if you looked at the States, as you said, and if the price of their durum was $2 a bushel higher, and the government was so inclined, they might say, “Oh, man, how are we supposed to compete with this?” I guess you could have a clear and transparent, “That's not fair, you

Agriculture committee  Well, to start, I've never used the AgriStability. Starting off with the CAIS, I thought it was just a big.... I was trying to use the system and trying to work within it, and it just didn't seem to work for me. I guess the idea is that it shouldn't work for you; otherwise, you m

Agriculture committee  I'm in Kneehill County.

Agriculture committee  To start with, we want the option to choose whether or not we want to go through them. To be able to align yourself with a company is what I would like to see as a start, for sure—100% choice. I'm not trying to say that the Wheat Board needs to be completely gone; all we need to

Agriculture committee  It's 4,400 acres. We grow a variety of grains and oilseeds, wheat barley, malt barley, and canola, and we have a few cows. In our area, we would possibly be considered a larger farm in the Acme area, northeast of Calgary.

Agriculture committee  Some of my friends run dairies, and it seems that they run very successful businesses and they seem happy with their supply management, as well as with the feathers. I don't know if that's something that needs to be touched or not. I can't speak for the dairy farmers or the chick

Agriculture committee  Yes. I feel exactly the same way about the program and the old CAIS program. It just seemed like it was a whole lot of work and there were a whole lot of hoops to jump through to hopefully, possibly, be covered off in the end. I would like to see more of a real good crop insuranc

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Matt Sawyer, and I'm a fourth-generation farmer from Acme, Alberta. Acme is located around 80 kilometres northeast of Calgary. Our farm was established in 1903 by my great grandfather, and we've been blessed to have someone in each generati