Agriculture committee  I have a few thoughts on that. In what we delivered to the BMP sessions—I was the facilitator and had some guide materials to go through—one of the big points we tried to move forward in that session was knowing where you are, which is basically what you're saying. We had examp

Agriculture committee  But the two of them go to the farm market, and they're selling a story: they're selling themselves and they're selling top-quality products. If you're going to have programs helping people, maybe it's in developing a market strategy, a story, something you can take to market yo

Agriculture committee  Personally, I'm a big fan. It makes a lot of sense. The challenge we have in New Brunswick is the way that NB Power has procured their renewable electricity. They've said they need 10% on the grid. So they did it by RFPs, requests for proposals. Basically, what we got was Trans

Agriculture committee  When you develop a feed-in tariff policy and you focus on the price of electricity, that means everybody gets to play. If you put money out there then you've only got a set cost, and only so many projects are going to go forward. A feed-in tariff policy potentially allows everybo

Agriculture committee  To address the European context, it came down to energy policy. We've seen announcements of this. Ontario has done this, they followed the lead of Germany, and now we're seeing Nova Scotia coming on board. If you're going to have renewable energy play a role in your economy, you'

Agriculture committee  Good morning. By way of a bit of background on me, I operate a small farm in Carleton County. I do grass-finished beef for direct market to local consumers. I guess in a lot of ways, I'm a little different. I operate a small herd. We focus on quality and not so much on quantity.