Agriculture committee  I found interesting a comment from the previous presentation. One of the questions was about agriculture grads, how excited they are to be working, and whether there were jobs in their field. One of the positions that was listed off by the witness was law, and none of them were a

Agriculture committee  That's a great question. We, again, at the provincial level—and this is something that can be replicated elsewhere—like Ted said, our provincial government recently targeted new farmers as an economic growth opportunity for the province. We still are waiting to see what exactly t

Agriculture committee  About the succession connect program that the chamber of commerce is leading, I haven't spoken to them directly about it, but in the Campbellton area they were doing a similar program a few years ago that was mostly for grocery stores, corner stores, etc., connecting people, futu

Agriculture committee  I attended a presentation when Guy came to Fredericton to share about his private member's bill. One of the things that goes along with everything we're saying is that our lack of knowledge of new farmers is our current.... For example, the regulatory framework we have around far

Agriculture committee  Could you answer that question, Mr. Wiggans?

Agriculture committee  I was just thinking about a CBC report that aired this week. They mentioned that the family grocery basket was going to increase by $420 this year. If you consider food sovereignty, you have to look at the entire system. If the consumer can't afford to feed himself, then the circ

Agriculture committee  Mr. Wiggans basically stressed the fact that a new generation of farmers is needed, and that in our opinion this issue is first and foremost a cultural one. As Mr. Wells was saying earlier, we lost a whole generation which for various reasons decided they would not work on the fa

Agriculture committee  The next topic is business risk management, and in particular, the agri-stability program. Canadian farmers are experiencing a prolonged income crisis. Federal agriculture policy has consistently promoted increasing agri-food exports, regardless of the impact on Canadian farm fa