For the first time, the Federal Standing committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food met with Grey Bruce farmers on their own turf.
The committee is led by Bruce Grey Owen Sound MP Larry Miller.
He brought the members of Wiarton yesterday, to hear first hand what issues farmers have to deal with in rural Ontario.
Miller was pleased with the turnout at the Waterview Motel in Wiarton.
He says the seats were almost all full, compared with very few people at hearings held elsewhere in Canada.
Miller says the general feedback he is getting is that farmers want government, all levels of government to get out their way and let them farm and earn a living.
Many farmers feel they are regulated to death, and the local MP says that is one message he’ll take back to Ottawa with him.
Miller says they heard from both pessimistic, and optimistic farmers during the hearings they have been holding in the past few weeks.