While foreign ownership of Saskatchewan farmland is a major concern to the provincial auditor, the provincial agriculture minister denies it's a problem.

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According to newly-minted Agriculture Minister Daryl Harrison, foreign ownership of Saskatchewan farmland isn’t really a problem.

But it’s perhaps the biggest problem in agriculture today, according to provincial auditor Tara Clemett and a whole lot of farmers.

Any minister seemingly denying a well-explored problem raised by the provincial auditor in a formal report seems troubling.

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But maybe the bigger problem for the Saskatchewan Party government is having an agriculture minister who doesn’t comprehend a serious issue in his portfolio — a surprising problem for a governing party that won every constituency in the October vote that had a farm within its borders.

The standards for this portfolio have been high.

Consecutive agriculture ministers from Bob Bjornerud to Lyle Stewart to Dave Marit all demonstrated a knack for homing in on the issues that are most important to rural and farm voters.

The issues have........

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