Agriculture committee  Your bank wants that, too.

Agriculture committee  The big thing is that they were a monopoly buyer, not a monopoly seller. They put out a three-bushel quota. It made it easier for the railways to keep up, because they'd put out a three-bushel quota up in Ian's area, but I wouldn't get it. Railways could concentrate on Ian's area

Agriculture committee  I think the biggest lesson is that we should have done it 10 years sooner.

Agriculture committee  It was actually done in 2012-13. The first year that there was a problem was in 2013-14. There was a big crop, and so on.

Agriculture committee  I'd argue that. You'd have to talk to the grain companies themselves, but they all said to me at that time that it was easier. You can't go back and change it now. It was five years ago.

Agriculture committee  When Australia took their version of a grain commission down, their version of CIGI, the big difference was they were all tied into their wheat board. That was the big concern with buyers like Japan. They were concerned that we were going to lose our capacity to grade. We didn't

Agriculture committee  It's reactive.

Agriculture committee  No, but the collaboration did. That's what it's all about. It's about the line companies knowing what's going to happen on any given week, knowing how many cars they're actually going to get so they can call Jeffrey and tell him to load up that Super B and get it in here on Tuesd

Agriculture committee  It's a Band-Aid.

Agriculture committee  It did have an impact, since 60 boats got loaded.

Agriculture committee  Sure.

Agriculture committee  We could have gone back further than that and extended it to when they sunsetted in July, just to keep things on an even keel. The problem we had in 2013-14 was cash flow for farmers, but there were also 60-some boats sitting on the west coast charging huge dollars in demurrage

Agriculture committee  As I said, the existing number was 30 kilometres. You could see one elevator from another one. Every little town had its name on it, and you never got lost because you knew exactly where you were, whether you were in an airplane or driving down the highway. Now we have 300 high-t

Agriculture committee  You're absolutely right that there is a frustration out there. A lot of the grain that's grown now, I'd guess in the 50% range, is contract. Guys want to know up front what the price is going to be and commit to the volume. Maybe it's even higher than that now, but in 2013-14 it

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the members of this committee for taking on this study. A lot of the farm groups have made a lot of pertinent points, so I won't underscore them again, but this is déjà vu all over again. As has been said, we went through these same things in 2