The era to grow farming is here
We’re already feeding a lot of people.
Crystal Mackay, Executive Director of the Ontario Farm Animal Council
Crystal Mackay thinks we could be feeding many more. As host of last week’s symposium about how to grow farming, she said we’re ready for it.
One quarter of the Canada’s farms are in Ontario. The province is home to a third of the national population, and less than two per cent are farmers. As a case study in enterprise, we can look at how 50 percent of our pork is exported to the US.
We have the soil, climate and infrastructure to support a much larger industry, experts said. But then came the lament that not enough people wanted to go into farming. Manufacturing is going down the tubes, but agriculture isn’t likely to fully compensate. We’re going to need seed money, they said.
The investment fund established two years ago to promote the commercialization of local farming is just the beginning.
A wave of decentralized farming has begun. and it’s going to be huge.
