Agriculture committee  Certainly, it's not a question of either-or, and I think most farmers and folks in the agrifood system would see the local food sector, the regional food sector, and export-oriented agriculture not as diametrically opposed, on two opposite ends. Often farmers grow things for expo

Agriculture committee  Yes, there's research coming out now that, on a national level, the majority of new farmers are coming from non-farming backgrounds, so they're folks who don't have a family farm to take over. They do have a specific set of challenges that need to be addressed in terms of accessi