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Agriculture committee  Really, I think big agriculture is leading in technology. I think we have lots of opportunity. One of the biggest impediments to it is just the availability of broadband Internet and cellphone service. I think if we can have the connectivity issues fixed, the sky's the limit, rea

November 24th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  I think part of it is.... It's almost protectionism between provinces. People have their own markets. They want to continue to see that their local producers.... Local food is very important. What Ms. Stafford is talking about is not opposed to big agriculture. Local food is also

November 24th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Perron, but I don't have any translation.

November 24th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  I think the fuel standards are an example. For the United States, their number one export market for ethanol today is Canada. It doesn't matter what product comes out of the United States; it's heavily subsidized, so we're competing against that product, the ethanol that's heavil

November 24th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  As we see agriculture expand, farmers' risk is rising every year as we expand into different crops and different opportunities. Irrigation is a good example. There's a heavy capital cost to become involved in an irrigation project. That's real money to farmers and we need the bac

November 24th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  A good example would be in meat processing. We still don't have standardization between provincial and federal regulations. There should be more standardization and less red tape as far as meat processing is concerned. If it is good enough for Saskatchewan people to consume, why

November 24th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for the opportunity to present to the committee today. My name is Todd Lewis. I operate a grain and oilseed farm at Gray, Saskatchewan, with my brother and nephew. I am the president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan,

November 24th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  Well, all we can do is hope. Certainly this process has been ongoing for three or four years. You know, it's very frustrating to farmers that these are programs that were under review. Suddenly now COVID has happened, and we're getting messages from the federal government that th

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  I think it's a little bit like Mr. Ker said. The programming could be as simple as allowing those farms that do have mixed operations to split their operations, so they can put it under two programs.

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  Yes. The change to the reference margin limitation really does affect producers' ability to trigger payment. Yes, that's what we're asking for: that the reference margin limitation be changed.

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  I didn't get the translation.

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  I think that under the current business risk management programming, if we stuck with that and did the changes that we've asked.... In a province like Saskatchewan, it has a huge impact on provincial revenue when you make changes to the BRM programming. I believe the provinces ha

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

Agriculture committee  I think what we see with the U.S. farm bill is that in western Canada we're on the North American market when it comes to machinery, for instance, and the price of new and used machinery has been artificially supported by the payments that American farmers are getting. They have

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis

June 12th, 2020Committee meeting

Todd Lewis