Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  No. I was going to say pretty much the same, that...[Technical difficulty--Editor].

Agriculture committee  I just missed that last part where he was talking about the insurance programs.

Agriculture committee  It certainly bears thought, definitely.

Agriculture committee  I guess I didn't quite catch what he was saying. The audio is cutting out on us here.

Agriculture committee  We lost part of that question.

Agriculture committee  Actually, we have been working on that in these last six months. We had discussed what you're talking about when we were changing the reference margin, if that's what you were meaning. I just didn't really feel free other than to say that everybody should have a choice. You shoul

Agriculture committee  We're still talking in B.C. about matching.

Agriculture committee  I agree with Mr. Orb on that one. We definitely are in better times now for the grain and cattle industries. We're definitely on an upswing with cattle, where the demand is much greater than the supply. So this is the time that we need to take the time to look at new programs or

Agriculture committee  I think the biggest thing is to have the programs readily available. Again, what we at B.C. Breeder and Feeder have done is taken it on for the province, for the whole cattle industry, so that these people can have a chance to get a cash advance. A lot of the eligible ones who ha

Agriculture committee  In the feeder industry, the first thing would be to have money available so you could buy your feeder cattle. Having a decent interest rate would be one. The other one is markets, to be able to have access to market and feed stocks. Those would be the main things to enhance the f

Agriculture committee  Thank you.

Agriculture committee  We're under the snow belt and doing well. There's a lot of snow today.

Agriculture committee  We had a program for livestock insurance in British Columbia some 25 years ago and it worked very well. Just as with any other insurance there were premiums, and the program paid out if the market fell. If the market did not fall, that money was collected and stayed in the pool.

Agriculture committee  I will speak on that, from British Columbia. Our administrators and I look after a lot of the forms for our cattle producers in the province, and these certainly are cumbersome. They're not easily managed, for a lot of cattle producers. So yes, instead of 18 pages, it would be ni