Agriculture committee  Again, I think success breeds success, of course. We have to bring confidence. You have to have systems in place that de-risk it in a way. I think largely there's a lack of investment as well, just to speak to the amount of value that's trapped in the ivory tower. The Conference Board gives us a D in innovation, and that's because we're great at science and we're poor at translation, and that translation piece is all about a gap.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thanks to the members for their interest and their invitation. I'm here to speak for innovation, and I'm also here to speak for change. Since I wanted to talk about the future, I thought I would focus a bit on the past. If we think about agriculture, we should think that 10,000 years ago agriculture itself was an innovation.