Agriculture committee  I was trying to tackle whether we would want to boost crop insurance as opposed to do anything with AgriStability. As a farmer, I would be a little wary if there was no program protecting me against price risk at all.

Agriculture committee  Yes. As a farmer I would want some program to protect me against price risk, which crop insurance doesn't. Whether that's a form of margin insurance or revenue insurance, I would want to have some sort of price protection.

Agriculture committee  One would be to allow for more private insurance in agriculture. One way of doing that is to change the AgriStability formula. As of now, when you receive payments from a private agricultural insurer, your AgriStability payments are going to be reduced. If we want private insurer

Agriculture committee  A lot of what we're hearing from farmers on those types of solutions is that they want to be paid for things they are already doing. As Mr. Harpe said, over the past decade, farmers have been capturing a lot of carbon in soil. Their farming practices are trying to preserve the la

Agriculture committee  Obviously, we'll be seeing certain provinces.... In terms of AgriRecovery, most western provinces are stepping up to match the federal government's spending on that. There seems to be a fairly wide degree of buy-in from all provinces. Mr. Bourgeois has perhaps a different persp

Agriculture committee  Okay. Let's think of ourselves as a crop farmer around April 30 when they're deciding whether or not to apply for AgriStability. This farmer has already likely purchased a large share of their inputs and they also may have forward contracted or hedged a significant amount of the

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the committee. I hope it was worth the wait. In my remarks, I'd like to focus on AgriStability, which, as the previous witnesses have alluded to, is perhaps the most contentious of the programs in the Canadian agricultural partnersh

Agriculture committee  Can you hear me now?

Agriculture committee  I guess I'll try it without the headset, then, if I'm coming through clearly enough.

Agriculture committee  I feel as if it's the same. I've just unplugged it in here. Honestly, I'm not sure what's changed. It's the same set-up as it was during the test. I have no idea why it was working during the test but not now. I'm open to any suggestions.