I think that most farmers who've managed to survive this long are pretty good managers for the most part, given the crisis that we're in.
I guess the concept of a self-assessment would be to follow in the model of the environmental farm plan, where you do a self-assessment of your farm and you assess your own risks and develop a plan to mitigate those risks, environmental risks under that plan, on your farm. If you could do the same thing and have funding available for business risk management and sit down and be guided through a process with maybe some experts around the table, and say, I'm at risk on my farm because—Maybe I don't have the proper management skills, or maybe part of my production area is susceptible because of wet land or because of intrusion from urban development. Or what are the risks that exist on my farm and is there anything that I can do? Is there anything that I can plan for down the road to help mitigate those risks? Can I go get the management skills? Can I drain that corner of land that's pulling me back? Can I replace that old storage that's not adequate?
If that is risky to my business—those are business risks—maybe by some self-assessment and having some of the funds available to mitigate some of those issues that I feel are relevant right now, or could be relevant down the road, to my operation, that would be a way to address some of those problems. I think that was the concept behind that school of thought.