Agriculture committee  I'll try to get back to the beginning of that question.

Agriculture committee  In terms of where we're at on development, we will be launching our first product in 2012. It will not be genetically modified. Our genetically modified product will be in 2014. In terms of grower demands and farmers' awareness of this, the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commi

Agriculture committee  Well, plants take carbon from the atmosphere--greenhouse gases--and convert that carbon into hydrocarbons that we can use. That's why it becomes carbon neutral; we are actually not taking any fossil fuels from the ground and converting them to that. What you're looking at is pr

Agriculture committee  You're exactly on the right track.

Agriculture committee  No. In the land categories across Canada, there are significant acreages that are considered to be category 3 or category 4 lands. Under typical climate conditions, you would not be able to raise any food crop there at a profit. Your inputs would be too high, your water requireme

Agriculture committee  The initial product will not be GMO, but in order to achieve the parity against petroleum, you will have to have it genetically modified to ensure that you can get the full opportunity for that crop to be able to produce oil.

Agriculture committee  For us, the barriers limiting our growth are really in two areas. One is how long it will take me to get to the point where I can actually bring a product to market and understand if the market is going to accept it. Respectfully, I would say that suggesting we should put a morat

Agriculture committee  I appreciate the opportunity to say that. I think that for biotech, in terms of things like tissue culture, all canola varieties that are currently being grown--whether they are organic, GE, or conventional--were derived from a biotechnology process called anther culture, which

Agriculture committee  Exactly; they'll be non-GMO or conventional. They all go through that same biotechnology process, which is a laboratory process for producing them.

Agriculture committee  I'm not familiar with the alfalfa market, so I can't comment.

Agriculture committee  Well, the problem with any moratorium is that it starts a process of saying that we will examine whether or not you have value prior to your demonstrating that there is market value. This does actually drive away investment, and it drives away focus for the industry. Generally sp

Agriculture committee  Thank you, sir. I'd like to thank all of you for giving me the opportunity to come here and address the committee. The reason I'm here is to provide an industry perspective on the current and emerging role of biotechnology in agriculture. I think we're all aware that the bioeco