Agriculture committee  Right now, our farm is owned by my husband's parents. I actually married into farming, so to speak. My husband, Dwayne, and I are working on the farm with his parents. They represent the fourth generation; we'll be the fifth; then my little boy would be the sixth. So there are

Agriculture committee  I don't know if we can count him for sure, but he's a good help. Right now the way things are working is that the BMP groups gave us a bit of help to sit down and decide.... Succession planning is not something where you can just one day say, “Hey, I guess we're going to retire

Agriculture committee  With succession planning, we've definitely started to talk to see where things are going. My husband and I sat down; we've made our five-year plans envisioning where we want to go in the future. We've discussed them with his parents. We basically have ourselves all on the same pa

Agriculture committee  I think that's a very good tool. It would definitely be worthwhile, but I don't think it would hugely benefit me as a dairy farmer. My commodity is milk, so it has to be further processed before it can leave the farm. I like the idea, and I think it's great for the people in Queb

Agriculture committee  With regard to the agriculture food science course, I went to Sussex Regional High School, just over the way here. Agriculture was an elective. In the run of a year, you had approximately 45 kids who took the agriculture course. Home economics was an elective as well. As you said

Agriculture committee  My comments would be along the lines of Richard's. Being in the dairy industry, I'm very thankful that we have supply management. If we didn't have it, I sometimes wonder if we would be in the same shape as some of the beef farmers--sorry, Cedric. Right now the beef industry seem

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Have you ever looked at your plate while eating supper and thought about where it is all coming from? Where does food come from? My name is Becky Perry, and I live and work on a dairy operation outside Sussex with my husband, my children, and his parents. We are curr