Agriculture committee  We're getting there.

Agriculture committee  I don't think there's any other way. We need to break traditions and we need to start getting farmers to be collaborative in the way they work. We can still preserve that autonomy, but we need a higher level, armed with a little broader sight so that we can make better use of these resource flows because, as Trent said, we can no longer afford to have this machinery and this land sitting idle.

Agriculture committee  I think what we're talking about is creating some professional roles that currently don't exist for the youth in these industries. Currently we have a lot of seasonal work and a lot of jobs that most students out of high school or even a year or two out of university wouldn't consider professional.

Agriculture committee  I think where we start again comes back to the information flowing between stakeholders within the industry. If the market demands that we grow fewer potatoes, then we need to be able to react to that quicker than we have been. Where I see incredible potential is in some renewable energies.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Good morning, folks. We'd like to thank you for having us here. My name is Matt Ramsay, and Trent Cousins is beside me. We're going to do this in a two-part piece. We'd like to share our insights as they concern what we consider a necessary paradigm shift in 21st century agriculture.