Agriculture committee  It comes back to the very early decisions that were made in the international accords. At that time, we didn't know a lot about emissions or sequestrations from agriculture, so they got excluded. Because they were excluded, it's a bit like the qwerty keyboard on a typewriter in t

Agriculture committee  I believe that certainly a 10-year window is a time to respond to some of these, but again, you have to identify the specific technologies. You can't talk generally. There have to be specific technologies that are developed or in the wings, if you like, that can be implemented.

Agriculture committee  A good example in the case of heating is the use of heat pumps and electrically driven heat pumps, which may be solar collectors in combination with heat pumps. They may reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of heating systems. In the area of grain drying, I don't think we've real

Agriculture committee  The available technologies are actually on a continuum, and it depends very much on the crops grown, the moisture content of the grain, and the harvest conditions in each year. If the grain is slightly over-moist, aeration is a very good way to condition that grain and bring it i

Agriculture committee  The actual number that's been used in previous studies, including some Agriculture Canada estimates, is 1.65 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of grain on average. I use 1.5 tonnes as a conservative estimate of that.

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm a professor and grain policy chair at the University of Saskatchewan. I also provide labour and marketing advice for my son, Eric, who operates a 3,000-acre family grain farm in Indian Head, Saskatchewan. By the way, we rely on grain aeration and do