Im all in favour of…

Im all in favour of severances.Passing my farm to the next generation depends on an influx of capital. Farm machinery is now so expensive to replace,fencing is similarly very inflated.Most farms in my area produce industrial commodity (corn wheat,sotbeans.To diversify southern ontario farm land we need small food producers to make the province less dependant on california and mexican vegetables year round.OFA is a mandatory organization and speaks only for one sector of agriculture not all farmers.Please think this policy through as it promises to reviatalize some farm communities and provide local labour and community participation of numerous generations of farmers to come.Lets allow low density housing in rural areas and get away from imported mexican and jamican labour which is not sustainable and just.Please dont cave to big farm lobby grouprs like OFA who pander to Thousands of acreas of land sprayed with glycophosphate a known carcinogen.The development industry has been converting farmland into large profits for years with no regard for the small family farm operator.Why are these very well paid municipal planners now wrapping themselves in the flag of saving farmland.(simp;e answer their well paid pensions and planning jobs that have allow3d them to wield power for to long.