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Agriculture committee I would just echo that a lot of the farms are going to be transferred out of the family. Some of it is because farmers farm until they are so old that their kids have grown up and have their own careers. Then they are ready to pass on the farm, but they won't let go. A number of
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee Absolutely.
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee Okay. With fewer than 30,000 young farmers in Canada today and the fastest pace of decline in our history, fewer and fewer farmers will be producing food in the future. We need to encourage and support a new generation of farmers today who will be prepared to fill the shoes of o
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee We actually wrote a paper on this, and I can make it available to the committee. There is farm succession within farm families, but for a new entrant to enter into dairy, for example—we did a study—it costs about $8 million, and in Ontario the quota is $5 million to start a siza
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to come speak to you today. My name is Christie Young, and I am the founder and executive director of FarmStart. For the past 10 years, FarmStart, a charitable organization based in Ontario, has been supporting and encouraging a new gene
May 9th, 2017Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee They have the ability to choose between five companies.
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee And those companies also control the purchasing of the products that come out the other side.
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee I don't want to fight with you right now. I don't think we're fighting--
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee No, that's fine, thank you.
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee Again I think it depends on what technology you're talking about. I think the history of genetic modification has been tied to the purchase of other chemicals from the companies that have been selling the genetically modified seeds. That sets up farmers in a power imbalance. I
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee I think they can. I've talked to a lot of farmers who started using GM products and they've stopped, but then they're dealing with the recurrence of those crops, and that's what's led to increased used of herbicides, to deal with the volunteers who have come after they've used GM
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee I would agree with you that lots of young farmers are interested in getting into the sector and they don't want to do it the way their dads or their grandads did. I'm trying to be specific about the technologies. A lot of technologies are helping farmers farm better and be more
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee I think before the release of any new technologies we should understand the implications of those technologies. I don't think we can ever actually know what will happen down the road. We have to balance the future implications of something we can't predict with what we want to
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee Yes. A precautionary approach doesn't mean don't do anything. We have to ask, is this the avenue we should be going down, or should we be looking at other ways to reach the same ends that may have less serious implications, or may have implications that we can better estimate bef
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young
Agriculture committee From what I understand, the biotech sector has been receiving an annual amount of $7 million for approximately the past 15 years. The first money that the organic sector has received in research dollars is recent, and that's a three-year amount of $2.6 million. So just as a start
March 3rd, 2011Committee meeting
Christie Young