Innovation: March 2007 Archives

In the western Canadian agricultural sector, the value added per employed person is about 30% less than that of other sectors in western Canada. The real competition for the future viability of the agricultural industry is not with our international competitors - farmers in the US, EU, Mexico, China, and Australia - but rather with other domestic sectors that are able to out-compete local farmers and supply chain participants for access to land, labour, and capital. If we do not reverse this productivity gap, agriculture will become a sunset industry.