Agriculture committee  It's survival. I'm sorry.

Agriculture committee  We are trying to be efficient all the time, and it's because of the cost too. Just because there's a consultation doesn't mean we wouldn't stop trying to be efficient. Fertilizer is expensive, but it's very much needed to grow our crops. As was mentioned in the previous presentat

Agriculture committee  The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, whom we partner with on some of these initiatives, estimates that there could be as much as seven times the increase in some of the costs of our inputs from before there was a carbon tax. It's significant. We can't survive l

Agriculture committee  That's believed to be correct. There need to be some regional and even local studies done on how the different climates can affect that, but yes.

Agriculture committee  I guess it's reaching out. We've already had some discussions. We've been part of the fertilizer sector task force that's taken on some hearings. We've had people involved in that. We are carrying on with that, but like you said there are mixed messages. At first we didn't know w

Agriculture committee  We do have a little more information in our briefing note. We're always working on environmental stressors, drought resistance and things like that. We're always looking at new and different ways we can breed. I'm not a breeder, but we fund the breeders and give them a strategic

Agriculture committee  Yes and no. I want to produce as much as I can to sell in the world market, and I think my neighbouring farmers do too. A number of those things have gone because of trade. Many of our air drills, for example, were developed in the Prairies, and they are used around the world now

Agriculture committee  Yes, the increases could be much more devastating than what we've had. We currently have high commodity prices right now, and that's due to a number of factors, external market factors, conflicts in the world and shortages in some commodities. As you increase that, and we're seei

Agriculture committee  We don't know what a fertilizer emission target will totally entail yet. We're worried about that, and there are a lot of unanswered questions on that. That's something we're flagging. It's a consultation and discussion thing that's happening right now and it's something of great

Agriculture committee  There are a lot of unanswered questions and misunderstandings in what's going on there. We don't have all the answers to things like that. Going back to the seventies, we have cut the number of wheat acres down and they're growing other things in the Prairies now like canola and

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the opportunity to speak from the perspective of Saskatchewan wheat farmers. I'm Brett Halstead, chair of the board of directors of Sask Wheat. I'm a grain and livestock producer from Nokomis, Saskatchewan. Sask Wheat is a