The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) is Canada’s largest voluntary general farm organization, representing more than 36,000 family farm businesses across Ontario. These farm
businesses form the backbone of our robust food system and rural communities with the potential to drive the Ontario economy forward. Before addressing the discussion questions, there is only one Ontario landscape, meaning that the full range of landscapes and land uses found across Ontario; urban, rural, agricultural, natural heritage, cultural heritage and mineral extraction must learn how to share that one landscape. Inherent in this perspective is that our agricultural areas not only provide food, fibre and fuel, but also a broad range of environmental and ecological goods and services that benefit all land uses and by extension, all Ontarians. These environmental and ecological goods and services, in alphabetical order, include;