Agriculture committee  It's going to be very difficult. As Portia mentioned, our slide here clearly shows a ramping up of farm debt, in terms of investment in machinery, since 2009. However, there are limits to that. You can only get so technical and so big. With regard to land ownership, I would agre

Agriculture committee  I can start with that answer very quickly. The intergenerational transfer of assets is critical. Expanding the definition of family to allow for other family members, rather than just sons or daughters or whatever, is going to be critical, because it may not be your children who

Agriculture committee  That's a very critical issue for the horticulture sector. Canadian producers have had coverage when they sell their produce into the U.S. market. We've had it for the better part of 40 years. It guaranteed that as a producer you got paid, really, before anybody else. It was an in

Agriculture committee  That's really important. One of our challenges as farmers is that if we don't have a supporting processing business to take our product.... The best example would be that a lot of the meat processing plants are operating at about 75% capacity with some of the restrictions put on

Agriculture committee  Yes, I'm wearing one of my crops, garlic, and I'm a hot pepper producer as well.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the invitation to participate in your study. I am a vegetable and grain farmer from Ontario and the chair of the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council. I am also the co-chair of Canada's Agriculture and Agri-Food Labour Task Force, and together with the other