From a young farmer's perspective, expansion is a necessary evil, I guess, if you want to call it that. If I were going to get really big in the grain farming sector, I'd need a lot of cash. I'd need $250 an acre for equipment and $250 an acre to cashflow my inputs. If I wanted to be a landowner, I'd need another $1,000 an acre--and that's cheap land in Saskatchewan. It's good land, but it is probably the cheapest in the whole country.
So if you want to talk about that, I don't think the government needs to fund it, but you need to back us up. Going in there myself, I've run the numbers. I'm an accountant and it scares the crap out of me. To get a viable farm in Saskatchewan, which I consider to be anywhere from 3,000 to 5,000 acres--and if you really want to do it well, it would probably be closer to 10,000 acres--the numbers are scary.