Agriculture committee  I think we have to look at the convenience side of the food and we have to continue to move our products that are more accepted to what the consumer wants to buy right now. I go to these marketing things, and the consumers want to buy time, health... Foods as a substance is way l

Agriculture committee  They were talking about the tax on the consumer to support farmers. Maybe we could take the tax that the retailers have on us and the rebate programs off, and maybe then leave a bit more of it here, instead of....

Agriculture committee  The program that I think has made quite an impact on our farm, and maybe on the region, has been Select Nova Scotia, or the promotion of local consumption of product. It has grown the market and has allowed that. I've seen a dramatic change in the attitude of the people I sell t

Agriculture committee  I don't have an answer to that question. I just know that program has helped, and I would hope there'd be continued support. It's hard to keep one of those things fresh, right? They start out and have a little bit of initial impact, but how do you keep them fresh and all that ki

Agriculture committee  My comment was that it would be great, but you're not in the majority. You're in the minority if you're making your own. The reality is that most people are doing it. I'm not saying what they're doing is right or wrong, but the reality is they are. And if we say that it's wrong o

Agriculture committee  I guess the short answer to that would be yes. The difficulty is in the details, of course. I admire what Quebec does, but Quebec has this underlying belief that they want to be an independent country, and because of that they submit a little bit of their will to a common goal.

Agriculture committee  If you look at the market now, the biggest growth--I'm going to talk about horticulture again--is in the convenience items. The convenience items are your bagged salads, your pre-peeled stuff. The majority of that is capital-intensive. So what has happened is this is mostly being

Agriculture committee  Thanks. My name's Mark Sawler. I'm a vegetable farmer. My father started to farm; we've been in business now for 42 years. I was brought here as a young farmer. I'm not sure I still fit that category now, because I feel I'm an old farmer. I'm going to talk about a couple of t