A family farm is run by an owner-operator who does the work and makes the decisions, but if you want to have a discussion, we have the technology that would allow 25 guys to farm all of western Canada. It's happening in other parts of the world. They would do so on a hired-labour model, and still might call themselves a family farm.
We have to start limiting the size and the scale of farming if we want to have a vibrant rural economy. Otherwise, as has been pointed out, the lateness in these AgriStability payments is causing farmers to leave the land. The system is almost designed to expand the size of a farm, so you cannot ignore a discussion about the size limitation on what a farmer can operate. Some guys will operate a big spread, but other guys will be satisfied to try to stay at a smaller scale.
My objective is to try to stay at a smaller scale, and it's been getting more and more difficult.