I have a quick answer to that question as well. Again, it's a little bit anecdotal.
In the Birch Hills area in Saskatchewan we have 32 rural municipalities. I mentioned that we have 600-odd farmers signed up, representing 32 rural municipalities. Earl Mickelson, who is kind of the lead farmer trying to get everybody all enthused about the project, says he can't walk down the main street of Birch Hills without people asking, “When is Iogen going to break ground? When's the shovel going to go in the ground? My son will be able to stay on the farm as a result of the increased income.”
It's a two-step process here. The first is, what's the average age of farmers in Saskatchewan? It's pushing 60. Fifty-nine is the average age of a Saskatchewan farmer. Where are all the young people going to come from when these guys all retire? So step one is, keep my son on the farm; keep the family farm going.
Step two is that once they've earned $10 an acre for selling their straw, a lot of them are going to start looking at growing dedicated grasses--switchgrasses and native prairie grass from back in the days when the buffalo roamed. The yields of those per acre are three, four, and five times what the straw yields are. Obviously they're going to have to do the basic arithmetic--lost income from grain versus supplanted income from dedicated grasses. They'll have an opportunity there to do those numbers and make even more money per acre.