Agriculture committee  Yes, I have. I'm engaged to the point that I know what is being planned or being worked on. I'm not at the front lines of it. There's a whole new committee that's just been formed and just became active, and it's reviewing all of the BRM programming. It's rolling out April 1, but

Agriculture committee  I'll use the example that was brought up earlier, neonicotinoids being examined by PMRA. It was examined a few years ago by the Ontario government, particularly because of certain things to do with bees. Now it's to do with aquatic insects being threatened, because they found a c

Agriculture committee  I've thought about it a little. To help me manage my weather risk, I subscribe to a weather service from Kansas. You may ask why I would want to subscribe to a weather service that's based in Kansas. It has value. It made me money over several years by following a much more detai

Agriculture committee  It's far too difficult a question to ask me that quickly. We know the impacts are generally positive of the soil management packages that we've been employing for 20 years. Last year was a good example where we had reasonable reserve winters but also because our soils were that m

Agriculture committee  All the results to date, particularly of soil measurements of organic matter over the last 20 years, have indicated a whole different curve, if you will, from the original century model, as it was called. We know the practices are good. It's a matter now of proving it to the worl

Agriculture committee  I can't comment on exactly how rigorous the census part of it is. It does ask that one question about our tillage practices, but I wouldn't consider that all that rigorous. The science behind measuring, seeing how, and interviewing the farmer has been on the same site for those

Agriculture committee  The Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association has been the coordinating body of that for many years. There are supporting organizations like SaskCanola, Sask pulse, Sask Wheat, and those other commissions that are supporting the whole nature of that work because of the impact we

Agriculture committee  Yes, you've touched on a topic I've been working on for a number of years, and the position that a group of similar-minded organizations, including Grain Growers as the national body, but also a number of provincial groups where I'm from in Saskatchewan.... Just to put it in pe

Agriculture committee  I'm not a seed grower, but I'm going to a meeting tomorrow of an organization called Seed Synergy, which is doing cross-Canada meetings with farm groups to see what is the best way to move forward to help drive that agenda, that issue, and to get the private sector more involved

Agriculture committee  From what I'm aware of, the pesticides now being reviewed would actually increase if they were decertified or taken off the list of products available to me. I would probably have to spray other things that are more harmful to the environment and use up more of my time, fuel, and

Agriculture committee  Mr. Finnigan and all members of the committee, thank you for this invitation today. My name is Doyle Wiebe. I am a farmer and a director with the Grain Growers of Canada. We have 13 members representing over 50,000 grain producers from coast to coast. I'm currently chair of the