Obviously we need to keep young farmers around. If there are no young farmers, then there's no farming in the future.
Allowing the young farmers to borrow at rates that are lower than those for other farmers is a start. Through MASC, the young farmer rebate, I believe, is half a percent right now, so it's not a really big difference. Allowing us to borrow at the prime interest rate through FCC would be a huge help, because then we're not subsidizing the use of these programs for other farmers. I don't understand why we're being punished for trying to enter this industry. People say they want us in it, but we're paying the same rates as everyone else. Why would we want to? Everyone else is getting punished, and we're getting it because we're young. I see that as a big barrier.
The other thing is to allow farmers to choose what they're going to do with their product, whether it's through the Wheat Board or whether they want an open market. We need that choice. We don't need someone else making the decision for us. Stability is an issue; not a lot of people want to get into it when you don't know where your next pay cheque is coming from, or when.
I think that's probably the main way to keep this industry afloat.