Livingstone-Macleod candidates shared their thoughts on agriculture at the forum in Nanton on Wednesday, April 3.

NDP candidate Cam Gardner says market share and consumer push back on beef were some of the issues constituents were concerned about.

Gardner says part of the solution is to hit climate change concerns head on.

"That's a major concern of our customers. We need to treat them like they're friendly, and one way of doing that is building a framework to get farmers paid to put carbon in the ground and take it out of the air."

He says, UCP Leader Jason Kenney's plan to scrap the carbon tax could mean tariffs on trade from countries who don't think we're doing enough to reduce emissions.

UCP Candidate Roger Reid with his family at the Nanton forum.

Meantime, United Conservative Party candidate Roger Reid says he's seeing strong support from the ag sector.

Reid says it's important to have a government who will stand up for agriculture and oil producers.

"We were chatting at the forum tonight about the trade and tariffs that would go onto Canada because we're not good stewards of the environment. We're better stewards than China and we can't get our canola to market right now because we have adverse relationships with our trading partners."

Reid says agriculture is the second biggest revenue generator in the province.

Hundreds of people packed the hall for the forum this week.

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