Agriculture committee  Our program is very good at aggregating within our catchment areas. We are entering into a moment of scale for our organization where we will grow more rapidly across the country, but of course, it takes a very big listening ear to open yourself up to all these solutions.

Agriculture committee  There's research that we are doing to measure the performance of these things, including our IMWEBs platform, including calculating carbon in the future and including counting biodiversity through different research platforms, so yes, the answer is that we try to apply the resear

Agriculture committee  Exactly. Again, back in my home county, the county's largest farmers are active participants in our program. They use their yield monitors to identify lands that aren't particularly economic for them to farm. Invariably when we're working in and around the treed areas, that shad

Agriculture committee  I think we have to recognize the power of grassroots solutions. I've seen so many creative solutions from across the countryside where we operate, where farmers from P.E.I. are terracing their fields to hold the water and the topsoil on their fields by using fast-growing grasses

Agriculture committee  I think it's absolutely vital. The more people we can collaborate with in rural Canada, the better solutions we will find. Our program in Quebec, in Montérégie, for instance, is rooted with the UPA. They administer the program there, together with other partners, including the Po

Agriculture committee  The ecotype I will point to here is the tall grass prairie, which you're familiar with at rare. I think in my home county, tall grass prairie was the ecotype that was here at the beginning of time. It's a really unique, diverse set of grasses rooted extremely deeply, up to 16 fee

Agriculture committee  There's a role for the government to obtain from organizations like ours the delivery of services that are important to Canadians. That delivery forms part and parcel of the funding envelope that drives an organization like ALUS. We not only expect to deliver on behalf of Canad

Agriculture committee  We are farmer-led. Our whole program is developed from the farmer's perspective. I'm trained as a business person, and I think first and foremost what ALUS attempts to do is to make sure that a significant amount of the value that that farmer creates stays with the farmer. As we'

Agriculture committee  This is a very challenging question and, fortunately, we have 31 farmer-led PACs across the country that have addressed it. What they feel is that it's important to recognize a farmer's contributions dating all the way back to the Kyoto protocol. We recognize, within our programm

Agriculture committee  We do. Our partnership advisory committees have landed a way of pricing projects across the country, but it's through research that we will determine their true value. We work with Dr. Wanhong Yang at the University of Guelph, who has provided some very impressive IMWEBs models

Agriculture committee  My answer is twofold. First, we'd love to bring ALUS to your community.

Agriculture committee  There's that. In my history as a farmer, the biggest missing thing for us has been the loss of extension for farmers. The role of extension has been taken over largely by the suppliers who sell the inputs for farms. This is a bit of a missing link, because that knowledge about w

Agriculture committee  One of the things that farmers have told us in the design of our program is that we need to be voluntary. That means that we operate in a space that is neither a regulatory one nor a legal one. Our farmers' actions are operating in an additional nature. In other words, they're pr

Agriculture committee  Aldo Leopold was a great figure to follow because he recognized the stewardship role. The idea for our program came from Ian Wishart, who was a potato farmer in Manitoba at the time and who now sits as the environment minister of Manitoba. His notion was that the farm can be a

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here today. I am a veteran farmer from here in Norfolk County, Ontario. I also serve as an executive in residence at the Ivey business school. Most importantly, today I come here as the CEO of ALUS. To contextualize my position in