Agriculture committee  Sure. Compensating farmers for ecosystem services, such as sequestering carbon, is something other parts of the world are doing. I definitely see that there's great opportunity for Canada to support producers to continue doing good environmental stewardship on their farms.

Agriculture committee  There's definitely lots and lots of interest in producers adopting these best management practices: cover cropping, nitrogen management and rotational grazing. Many farmers have already started these BMPs, and OFCAF only funds new adopters of the best management practices, so t

Agriculture committee  A lot of it comes down to education, I would say. Farmers want to do the right thing, but it's about time, about understanding how time works in their business model and on their farm. We all know that cover crops are great, for example, but how do you work it into your crop rota

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure I understand the question. What do you mean by transitional advisory services?

Agriculture committee  Yes, that is indeed what Perennia does. We work with producers to implement best management practices on all sorts of things but definitely on these environmental BMPs, and we're figuring out how it works best for their farms and their business models.