A good deal on farmland for municipal and provincial governments?
Editor, The News:
Re: Why foreign workers? (Letters, Feb. 13), Money keeps land in shape (Letters, Feb. 13).
If it was not for foreign workers a lot of farm work would not be done because nobody wants to do the work.
Come summer and haying, you can not get workers. That is why farmers need bigger and more expensive machinery so at least they can do the work and work long days.
Like Lance Felgnar’s suggestion, let the city or governments buy our land. I’ll even give them a deal – $300,000 for a quarter acre (better than a 120-foot-lot for that price). Since our land is in the land freeze, at least they have to keep it in farming. Then they can do the work and hire the workers.
We have 10 acres. What’s that worth, about $12 million? That is peanuts compared to what land not in the ALR goes for.
Geeske de Boer
Pitt Meadows
Try farming
Editor, The News:
Re: Money keeps land in shape (Letters, Feb. 13).
Finally a letter from a farm owner who tells it like it is. Lance Felgnar’s description of the work and money needed for farming is excellent. All the people who advocate keeping land that is barely suitable in the ALR should have the joy of running a farm for a year.
Cherryl Katnich
Maple Ridge
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