Meet Marie-Pier

Egg producer, Ferme St-Ours, Quebec – See how Marie-Pier uses sustainable practices to ensure the continuity of the farm for other generations.

[Upbeat electronic music starts.]

[Video collage that includes a picture of a farmhouse, close up view of multiple chickens, a sunflower field, a bird’s-eye view of a building on a farm, three people walking together down a road, and a crop field with multiple barns behind.]

Text on screen: Meet the people behind your food

[Laughs.]

[Marie-Pier Lefebvre standing outside with a blurred-out view of the farm behind her.]

Text on screen: Marie-Pier Lefebvre – Egg Producer, St-Ours, Quebec

Marie-Pier Lefebvre: How many eggs will a hen lay per day?

A hen will lay an average of one egg every 25 hours, so about one egg per day.

Text on screen: Type of farm?

[Aerial view of the main building on the farm.]

Marie-Pier Lefebvre: It started out as a dairy farm.

[Aerial view of a piece of land on the farm which includes a large barn and field crops.]

[A close up view of multiple chickens.]

Then, in ‘93, a decision was made to move towards laying hens.

[A close up view of multiple eggs. Farmer’s hands moving the eggs on conveyer belt. Eggs being placed in egg cartons by a machine.]

Text on screen: What do you like about your work?

[Marie-Pier Lefebvre standing outside with a blurred-out view of the farm behind her.]

Marie-Pier Lefebvre: What I like most about my work is the diversity.

[Birds eye view of the main building on the farm.]

Every day is different. We work with real people.

[Marie-Pier Lefebvre sharing a conversation with someone outside, with a sunflower field behind them.]

We keep in touch with nature too.

[A black pickup truck driving down a small dirt road within the property.]

We have contact with the chickens and the fields.

[A close up view of somebody holding a chicken close to their chest.]

[Marie-Pier Lefebvre pulling and handling crops on the outer edge of the sunflower field.]

That is what keeps us grounded.

[Footage of a male walking in the opposite direction through a pasture.]

Text on screen: An example of a sustainable practice?

[Aerial view of two barns surrounded by many silos off a dirt road on the farm.]

In terms of sustainable practices, we have an organic mill.

[A close up view of someone’s hand pressing buttons on a wall-mounted control panel.]

The mill allows us to give our free-range pullets and hens 100% organic feed.

[A close up view of someone’s hand scooping grains out of a metal bin. Footage of five chickens standing around their chicken coop door and walking in the direction of the camera within a barn.]

Text on screen: What is sustainable agriculture?

[Marie-Pier Lefebvre standing outside with the farm behind her.]

For me, it’s agriculture that makes sense, which is done in such a way…

[A close up view of a person holding a chicken in their arms.]

that the animals, our environment and the people we work with are respected.

[Footage of a male walking towards the camera, with a transport truck parked on their left. Dozens of eggs moving down a conveyor belt.]

To be the most productive, but above all to ensure the continuity of the farm for other generations.

[Footage of a male sitting at a desk while using a calculator with papers in front of him.]

Text on screen: Words of wisdom?

[Aerial view of large crop field and a tree line in the distance.]

My grandfather often said that the land belongs to our children and is on loan to us. We have to take care of it today so that tomorrow we can have agriculture in Canada as well.

[A group of three walking together along a dirt road with a crop field to their right and their backs towards the camera. A close up view of a sunflower field. Aerial view of the farm with barns and crop fields.]

[Marie-Pier Lefebvre smiling and proudly holding up an egg towards the camera.]

[Music ends.]

Text on screen: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada

[Government of Canada logo.]

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