Agriculture committee  I hesitate to give a complete answer for energy, but I know, for example, on-farm fuel use has decreased over time as practices have changed. Machinery has become more energy efficient, and with no-till farming, fewer passes of machinery over the land has reduced fuel use over ti

Agriculture committee  We did see overall energy prices increase. Prices for electricity, propane and natural gas all went up in 2018. There is a carbon price also associated with the energy price that went up that year.

Agriculture committee  Any carbon pricing would be included in the energy expense in that chart. We have estimates for the cost of this. We do know, however, that the total GHG emissions from the sector come from numerous sources, some of which are from energy, but we also have some from animal product

Agriculture committee  Off the top of my head, I don't necessarily know about farm type, but I do know that as more women farmers have gotten into the business, there's a tendency for them to get more into mixed farming and crop and greenhouse operations as opposed to the large crop or large animal-typ

Agriculture committee  I have a couple of final words on environment and climate change. As you can see from slide 20, overall GHG emissions from the sector have been fairly static over time. This is despite the fact that overall production in the sector has risen over that same time period. We often

Agriculture committee  Thanks, Tom. I'll start on slide 3. I probably won't touch on all of the slides, but we'll briefly go through a few of them. Slide 3 demonstrates the agricultural sector's contribution to GDP. In 2018 it was $143 billion, making up 7.4% of total GDP. That includes the entire va