Excellent. That would be very beneficial to our farmers.
Mr. Taylor, I want to thank you for coming, and I want to thank everybody for coming.
My family farms as well. I've got to tell you that I just got off the phone with one of my producers, and they very much disagree with your opinion on the increased yield with canola. They feel that the GM products they use have substantially increased the yield they have, which increases the amount of revenue they have on their farm.
I guess that's not my biggest concern. I have to say that I really disagree with your comments about farmers walking down the road with their hands out. I've got to tell you that my farmers don't do that. My farmers go and take a second job, then a third job, and then their wife goes out and works. These aren't guys who can control the fact that we've had droughts; these aren't guys who can control the fact that we've had floods. At the end of the day, I don't think organic is going to be the answer to mother nature's creating these problems, because my organic farmers, when we are in a five-year drought, have the same problems, if not more problems, than my guys who are using GM.
You talk often here about it coming down to the consumers and consumers need to have the knowledge. I agree with that. I also agree, though, that producers need to have choice.
I'm going to ask you a couple of questions about consumer knowledge.
I've heard that an organic farmer doesn't necessarily have to use organic seed. Is it true that he just has to have tried, so many times, to obtain organic seed?