Agriculture committee  I produce organic wheat, so basically I have to (a) hope that I can find a buyer, (b) hope that the buyer is still solvent enough to pay me after I sell it, and (c) hope that he honours the contract at the end of the year. Really, it's no different a risk than for my other two co

Agriculture committee  We wouldn't be farming today like we are now at the turn of the century if it wasn't for being off board wheat, and we're growing different market classes of wheat now. We've been innovative in that way.

Agriculture committee  One thing I'd like to see, and I'm not sure exactly how we would do it, is that when somebody is retiring from agriculture and is willing to sell to a beginning farmer, we need to exempt them from capital gains. What that would do is allow them to sell for the same price, to take

Agriculture committee  I agree with the premise. My only concern is how this would affect instances in, say for example, the supply management sector. There, the farmers have gone together to pool their milk; you effectively have one seller. That has to be taken into account as well.

Agriculture committee  I've put in two different applications for credit on buying two different farms in two different regions with two different business plans. And it was dealing with the same bank, so we don't need to use any names. The first one was actually an operating dairy farm in Saskatchewan

Agriculture committee  I again have to say that we need to make sure, when it does come to beginning farmers, that they have to be able to come up with a little bit of input into what their reference margins are. Somebody in my area, say, is dealing with different realities from somebody in eastern Ont

Agriculture committee  Hi. I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you. I come to you as somebody who has covered a fair number of different commodities, from dairy to beef to organics and conventionals. I'm also sitting here as the Ontario-Quebec representative of the Canadian Young Fa