Agriculture committee  Thanks for asking the question. In three points—

Agriculture committee  Well, I just quickly wrote down three, so I'm going to stick with three. First of all, there is money. We have to be able to make a living. That's simple. Everybody has to be able to make a living. We need to be paid appropriately for what we're doing, and all farmers need to do that.

Agriculture committee  I can talk a bit about the SRM issue. The SRMs have become a really big problem since BSE hit. One day you could use this material, the next day there was nothing. No program facilitated use of SRMs. Ideally, we should be able to use a lot of waste products for biofuels to produce energy.

Agriculture committee  I just need about $100 million from the government to start up.

Agriculture committee  The biggest problem with straw is that it's so bulky, and transportation is just impossible.

Agriculture committee  Well, the biggest obstacle.... Financing a farm from one generation to the next is about maintaining financial prosperity for many generations at once. It's obviously more advantageous for a farm to be sold for a sum of money than to be passed on. As far as your situation goes, I wish we had some more of that happening in Saskatchewan.

Agriculture committee  Well, absolutely, we would support that. I would support that as a young farmer. If you can't cover the cost of production, there's really nothing more you can do, is there? That makes sense, doesn't it?

Agriculture committee  Can you repeat the very last question?

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to talk to you on behalf of the very few young farmers who are left in Canada. I'm a fifth-generation Saskatchewan farmer. I was raised on a family farm north of Saskatoon with three older siblings, who are all now engineers. When I came back to the farm four years ago, it was a typical prairie grain farm.