Agriculture committee  There isn't currently anything like that in place that I know of. I think that could be a great resource, even just to bring everyone to a community hall so that they know what is available, what's out there and where the next steps would be. Maybe it's not that they need to tell

Agriculture committee  I think that education comes into that as well, because if someone breaks a hip, it's really easy to get a meal train set up to make sure that there's food going to their house and to do what we can. Maybe they can't run the tractor, so we're going to go and help them harvest, bu

Agriculture committee  I think it would be bringing in mental health first aid so people know about it. A lot of people don't even know that mental health is something that we deal with every day and that it's a moving scale. There needs to be so much education around it. Perhaps having an app, havin

Agriculture committee  Regarding the succession aspect of agriculture, a lot of farms in Canada—90%—are family run and family operated. There's the succession piece of how we convey that on to the next generation. A $1-million capital gains exemption is nothing. If you're looking at the cost of land, t

Agriculture committee  With regard to wait times at hospitals for physical injuries, those are going to vary by location, obviously, with population issues. On the mental health side of it, it could be half a year before I get in to see a therapist or a psychologist. I think the mental health side of t

Agriculture committee  That's what Do More Ag is trying to do. Right now they've partnered with FCC and bringing mental health first aid into rural communities. That's a huge step forward, because we can be at a certain place where we're able to realize, “Okay, we need to talk about it. Maybe we need t

Agriculture committee  I hope so. I've been in some conference calls with CN about this, and they do have a plan. They're working really hard. It's going to come down to what our winter is like and seeing how they implement that plan. Right now I think the mood of farmers across western Canada, especia

Agriculture committee  I think education is going to be the big one in finding something that is federal, not just provincial, and trying to put programs together that may or may not have a great influence. There's something going on in Europe. In the U.K. they're doing FaceTime with a farmer in clas

Agriculture committee  Like Sean said, we can't control the weather. What we can control are our inputs, and that costs us a lot. We need to go in being completely positive that even if we start out in a drought, it's going to turn around. If we treat that crop as it's growing with the herbicides and

Agriculture committee  With AgriStability, it doesn't really work for my farm, for instance, if you're trying to expand your operation or if you're new. We're technically fourth generation, but my husband started the farm up a couple of years before I came along. We're basically operating as a first-ge

Agriculture committee  I'm not sure why Canada is the second highest in the world. Japan is the only country in front of us. Where I farm in Saskatchewan, we have huge potash mines, so it's a little mind-boggling. That's not something that we get to change. If we want to grow the best crop that we ca

Agriculture committee  Yes. Right now most Canadians are removed at least three generations from the family farm. There is a huge disconnect there. I was one of them. We need something that is national. Right now we have Agriculture in the Classroom in Saskatchewan. Alberta tries to do the same progra

Agriculture committee  Sean talked about using FaceTime with a therapist. I know there are therapists who do that right now. I think that would be more the route to go. One of the problems linked to the stigma is that even if we were to have the services in my little town of 375 people, it's guarantee

Agriculture committee  I grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and had an 11-year career in the film industry before meeting my husband and moving to rural Saskatchewan. There, I became a grain farmer. It didn't take me long to figure out how challenging, stressful and isolating farming can be. While 2016 may