As a small farm owner in…

As a small farm owner in Hamilton I agree with the proposal to allow severance of farm land in Ontario. This would allow families to stay together through generations on the same land and find affordable housing. However, large farming organizations "representing" farmers including the National Farmers Union, the Beef Farmers of Ontario and Dairy Farmers of Ontario will be against the proposal. The proposal will make it more difficult for corporate farms to consolidate small farm land and operations, consequently resulting in less cashflow being received by the governing bodies from these large farm organizations. Publicly, these bodies have claimed the proposal will materially decrease the total agricultural output of the province, however this is simply not true. If the farm owner choses to sever, the newly built home would likely take up less than 1% of the total property given the average lot size of farm land in Ontario. Lets not confuse large scale developments with family homes. The Government should sit down with actual farm owners who are most impacted by the proposal, rather than profit focused governing bodies.