Agriculture committee  Basically, you want us to list the recurring problems. We can easily name two: the price of feed and the price received for products. A study was done on the price of feed. I don't have all the details, but I know that the price of feed is higher in Quebec. That's recurring. I a

Agriculture committee  I would like to add that access to capital is tough and that the price of land is extremely high. In some cases, farmers' lands and businesses are their only pension. They sometimes get donations, but at other times, they have to sell the business. In the future, producers should

Agriculture committee  You are asking whether businesses need management. I have a short passage before me from the brief prepared by the Centre d'expertise en gestion agricole on September 2, 2011, for the work of the Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, Energy and Natural Resources. The topic is Queb

Agriculture committee  We love agricultural management, among other things, because it allows us to follow businesses from year to year and then compare the current year with past years. We evaluate their projects. For example, we could evaluate the production costs of a business by finding that, this

Agriculture committee  For example, some investment projects are used to evaluate the financial techno-economic impact of businesses. This helps us properly target our investments to ensure that once the business is established, it will be competitive and successful. These evaluations are not included

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, everyone. The Fédération des groupes conseils agricoles network includes close to 70 management agronomists, who are assisted by 20 technicians. I am one of these management agronomists. Still, our clientele is quite diverse. At 85%, dairy farmers make up the la

Agriculture committee  Among the management consultant support programs, there is the Programme d'appui au développement des entreprises agricoles, or the PADEA. Since 2005, funding based on deliverables has been used as part of the Growing Forward 1 program. Recently, there was the Stratégie de souti