Agriculture committee  One of the issues that arose last year is that for people under a certain income, their tuition was free. That applies to all kinds of programs in the province, but if you want to get an education in agriculture, you have to leave the province. We've raised this with the provinci

Agriculture committee  I'll make one comment to start with. The provincial government has individuals who have been tasked with liaison with new farmers, immigrant farmers, or whatever from Europe or other parts of Canada, partly because we have such low cost land in the Maritimes. They've also put tog

Agriculture committee  I don't think we're advocating that we get rid of the export model. The export model is very important. In New Brunswick, potatoes are a huge industry. Blueberries are an export product. But, especially for new farmers to get into farming, there is a huge amount of smaller produc

Agriculture committee  It all depends upon the commodity group we're talking about. Even if you look at the total net farm income on that chart versus the exports, there has been a tremendous increase in both imports and exports, and net farm income has increased slightly, not nearly as much.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Good morning. We appreciate the opportunity to appear before the committee today. At the provincial level, the NFU-NB consulted with our minister of agriculture before the Calgary meeting in July. Federally, our national organization has provided input at various s