Agriculture committee  I think the initial reaction would be to say we would welcome assistance. Some of these things are very difficult to do on your own and the costs are prohibitive. Unless it's something that really ties my hands or alters my operation to where it's like, “I'd like to participate b

Agriculture committee  Energy efficiency is something we look for. We look for efficiencies all the time. If it adds to our bottom line, we will look for that. I've made a comment to people that.... I'm a little bit off-base here, but my combine is a very large piece of equipment and it has a big dies

Agriculture committee  Let's put it this way. If we find a solution and we move away from carbon-based fuels, then there's no need for an exemption. Does that answer your question?

Agriculture committee  You are correct. It is not movable. It is designed to sit in one spot. Ours is not a big farm. You alluded to the size of some of the farms that would probably be in your area. Ours is like a hobby farm. Yes, all these things are permanent structures. If I were to adopt a grain

Agriculture committee  Yes. You're absolutely right. Quite often, we use a grain dryer as a management tool. I will dry grain early in the season. It's a time-management thing. It's not because it has been raining for two weeks. It's that I want to get out there and get a jump on it because I have oth

Agriculture committee  On a really big farm, you're going to have a farmyard that's probably, I don't know, 20 acres or maybe 30 acres. The grain bins are 30 feet in diameter and 50 feet tall, and you have a whole bunch of them. I'm talking about a really big farm. You have big trucks coming in and ou

Agriculture committee  That's kind of tough. Arguably, if I were going to tell you, I'd try to give you a number for how many tonnes per acre. Quite frankly, I don't even know that. I couldn't tell you. Something I will go back to is your comment about drying with biomass. That would be true, because

Agriculture committee  Here's the challenge. For crop residue, if I were going to collect the residue off my crops—canola, wheat and barley—probably barley residue, barley straw, would be the superior one, I would think. I would need to have that collected the year prior and ready to use in my grain dr

Agriculture committee  That's a good point. In terms of the nutritional value of the straw and crop residue that comes off my crops, there is value to that. There are nutrients in that—you mentioned carbon—and now I've gone and I've burned that to make heat.

Agriculture committee  To my understanding, I don't think so. I'm not aware of that. The dryer that I have was originally propane—and this is nothing against Mr. Kelly's product—but we have a pretty good natural gas distribution system, and I was able to tap into that. It's very close to our farm. It i

Agriculture committee  Yes, I don't think there's any question about that, if we can get some help. That's always the critical issue: How do I pay for these things? I want to do something different, I want to do something better, but there are only so many dollars to go around. Critical things like thi

Agriculture committee  Personally, I haven't. Maybe Dave can speak to that point.

Agriculture committee  The quick answer would be that I have to see what's available as an alternative. That is the challenge. If there is no alternative, an investment partnership or however you want to term it, it's a moot point. Like I said with my grain dryer, I've kind of reached peak efficiency f

Agriculture committee  It would certainly accelerate any transitions we have, but I'll go back to my previous point. I need to see something that will do the job for me. That's going to be the key—to find an alternative. If there is an alternative, the faster we go, the better off we will be. I hope I

Agriculture committee  Yes, that's far simpler.