Agriculture committee  Yes. It needs to not be tied to one specific thing or one specific practice, so to speak. It needs to be tied to outcomes and things you are actually going to see on the land. I don't know whether Monica needs to jump in here. It just needs to not be tied to one specific prac

Agriculture committee  I assume that was directed toward me. Yes, waste is a concern. Most of us on our farms are dealing with that in very different ways. It may be something that would work for someone, but not necessarily for me. We use our feedlot as an upcycler and we produce thousands of tonnes

Agriculture committee  I'm going to defer to Monica on this one because she knows more data than I do.

Agriculture committee  I would absolutely agree. The biggest thing for us, from a producer's perspective—and maybe with a bit of my CRSB hat on—is that you can't control what you can't measure. Being able to quantify all of these things and measure them and know the improvement is key.

Agriculture committee  Personally, I think the biggest thing is.... There is no one silver bullet that's going to answer the sustainability issue within the beef sector. Every single one of us is so complex and so diverse. Just because x works for me, that doesn't mean it will work for someone else. Wh

Agriculture committee  Absolutely, unequivocally, yes, for sure.

Agriculture committee  I think Australia has been shown to be a leader in measurement of carbon sequestration and soil health. The health of the soil is where the rubber meets the road, so to speak, and if we don't have healthy soils, we can't produce any type of crop then. Those foundations of soil he

Agriculture committee  Maybe. I think that is the way.... As far as I understand it, when we add anything as an additive to feed, it's considered a drug. Monica, do you know anything more than I do?

Agriculture committee  I love that you got to go and see some grazing. That's wonderful. I think the research that needs to be funded is the research that helps us better understand land conversion and a balanced research portfolio that supports both industry emissions and carbon sequestration and the

Agriculture committee  Thank you. As I said before, recognizing the work of the people who have come before, we've been grazing grassland for 35 years and have seen an increase of 3,862% on our stock days per acre and an organic matter increase of over 6%. Those things are quantifiable, but there's

Agriculture committee  I would recommend clearing the regulatory pathway for feed additives to receive an environmental claim, and [Technical difficulty—Editor] easy because it goes into a drug approval pathway that's very time-consuming and costly. If we could kind of streamline that and make it go in

Agriculture committee  Yes. That's in the feedlot sector. As we understand it, there's no clear regulatory pathway for feed additives to receive an environmental claim. Currently, those products go into an existing drug approval pathway that's really time-consuming and very costly. The technology exis

Agriculture committee  One of the biggest things is the cost of the producer audit. It's a big barrier, so we're working on ways to reduce the financial burden of the audit. Enhancing public awareness and trust of the program are also an opportunity to increase adoption and demand.

Agriculture committee  I can speak to that a bit, and I might ask Monica to jump in. I am a beef producer from Taber. Cargill is offering an incentive. For the animals that go through the program and are processed at Cargill, the company will pay a certain dollar amount per head to the rancher and to

Agriculture committee  There is a preference, and it depends on the packing house they use. Cargill is offering it. JBS is not offering at this point. Monica, do you need to add anything in there?