Agriculture committee  Absolutely.

Agriculture committee  Recently I was the chair of Agriculture in the Classroom Saskatchewan. They were building a curriculum to take agriculture back into the classroom and to fit it into the curriculum. I know Agriculture in the Classroom Canada is going to be here later. Another model farm is just b

Agriculture committee  I keep getting these great questions that I don't think I can answer. We have built protocol for on the farm. When people might get opponents of agriculture who come onto their farm, we've developed a protocol so there are appropriate responses on how they manage that. I hadn't

Agriculture committee  Can I follow up?

Agriculture committee  The cattle-feeding sector is the sector that I represent, so I'm sorry I can't talk as much about grass-fed, but I can certainly talk about the cattle-feeding sector. There is a lot of research that's being done right now in feed efficiency to make sure we have the right feed and

Agriculture committee  Not that I have heard, not in the cattle-feed sector.

Agriculture committee  Obviously, research and investment constantly have an impact, as Tim mentioned. We don't see the herd increasing in numbers in Canada, but what we do see increasing is the weight per cattle. We're taking the research, exactly as he said, and we're looking at how we can increase p

Agriculture committee  It's not an easy question to try to answer. I think the main point is that there isn't a single way. When I address the first part, it's how do we get those messages out? I don't think there is a single way that we're going to do it. We need to use all the tools in the tool box.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to present this morning. My name is Janice Tranberg. I'm the president and CEO of the National Cattle Feeders' Association. NCFA was established in 2007. It represents Canada's cattle feeders on issues of national importance and works colla