Agriculture committee  I don't have any comparative data that has what they get from other sources, but one of the founding principles and core values of our business is that farmers need to get paid appropriately for the products they produce. I think that kind of founding ethos is one of the reasons

Agriculture committee  Typically, yes. The reason we exist is largely for the small and medium-sized farms. The impetus of our business was to provide sales and distribution to a group of farms that were too small to work with larger distributors and too small to work with grocery store chains, of cour

Agriculture committee  I think time will tell. I know that the farms we work with that are very proactive with respect to climate change, soil mitigation and regenerative farming have a lot fewer concerns than their neighbours regarding the rainfall levels and droughts seen in the past. The organic mat

Agriculture committee  From a logistical pickup standpoint, we provide logistics services to our farm partners. For many years, that was a complete occurrence on our balance sheet. As a business, that was unsustainable. We looked at our numbers and realized that. In order to get the products from the f

Agriculture committee  No. We have a cost-plus business model. We don't charge back any fees to our farm partners. In fact, they set their own prices.

Agriculture committee  I appreciate that. I think 1km Foods would be far more difficult, so I'll stick with 100. Thank you for your invitation to provide testimony during your investigation into food inflation in Canada. My name is Paul Sawtell. In 2008, my wife and I founded 100km Foods, an award-w