Agriculture committee  Yes, I think there's an opportunity to produce green energy, but Nova Scotia Power has the transmission locked up. Within this municipality, I don't even believe we can put up wind turbines. So we have bureaucracy at each level that makes it cost-prohibitive or time-prohibitive t

Agriculture committee  It probably depends on your location. I believe I have enough land area in my area to be able to put them up. NIMBY always doesn't look aesthetically pleasing, yadda yadda yadda. I mean, give me a break, people. Oil is going to go up and you need to open your eyes and realize th

Agriculture committee  Provincially, as Danny had mentioned, there's the farm investment fund. When I got into the turkey industry ten years ago, there was interest forgiveness on my loan. As was mentioned earlier as well, it was pretty minimal to the amount of money that I had to borrow. The interest

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Good morning, members of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-food. I appreciate the opportunity to offer some comments concerning the topic of young farmers and the future of farming. Let me begin by giving you a snapshot of my life. My name is Tim Ansems.