Agriculture committee  Yes. Anything that gets put on us that we have to add extra cost to is just going to add to our bottom line. Being exempt from it would be beneficial, but it's one thing.... There's a lot more that's accumulating, like the pesticides, the fertilizer and the labour. It just adds t

Agriculture committee  The carbon tax is.... It would be nice if we didn't have to pay that, or not get exempt.... If we had to pay it, and then we could take that money and invest it into being sustainable....

Agriculture committee  For us, AgriStability just doesn't work. The next time something can change in AgriStability will be in 2028. That's just too far away. We need a program in place until 2028, until we can get stuff figured out. We need something in place right now. I think 13% of horticulture fa

Agriculture committee  I think it needs to be up to the province. You have to allocate the money, and then the province needs to work together to figure out what works best for them. I know about just Nova Scotia. For Nova Scotia, what I can recommend is that we need something done right now. We can't

Agriculture committee  I think it's very important. Our breakfast program has had a huge uptake. I have two kids in elementary school, and a lot of times I have fresh fruit to give them, and they'll eat that, and then they'll go to school and eat some more. There are a lot of kids out there who wouldn

Agriculture committee  As Stefan said before, nitrogen is the big one. Fertilizer is huge. It's gone up by, he said, 128%. I didn't have the numbers. I just knew right off the get-go that it was over 100%. For fertilizer for us, pesticides for us and labour for us, the costs keep on rising. If we need

Agriculture committee  Any time that we've had to deal with stuff like AgriStability, it's always a long time coming. It's usually two years for what we save when it comes through. I don't know of any examples right off the top of my head, but it does need to come faster. Two years away is way too lo

Agriculture committee  I'm not that familiar with it.

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Honourable members of the standing committee, I thank you for inviting me here today. I am here as an advocate for agriculture and as a concerned farmer who is invested in the overall health and well-being of our industry. Before I delve into the challenges facing