Okay, thank you; sorry.
I think we first need to consult the farm organizations and then develop a vision for agriculture and make sure that vision is public and transparent. Measure all future policies against that vision. Does this new policy take us closer or further away? Then I would enact policy that puts farmer interest ahead of the corporate interest.
There are a lot of other recommendations in the Wayne Easter report, which I think are very viable. It's going to take courage and resolve to see this through. The longer you wait before you take a bull by the horns, the more expensive the solutions become. The last thing we need is a half-hearted, symptom-based solution like loan guarantees and any number of underfunded programs that we've become used to. Tackle the real problem of low net returns to farmers and the symptoms like declining young farmer numbers will look after themselves.
Thank you.