I think the lack of leadership to which Mr. Eby is speaking, and to which I was speaking earlier, is this inability to move out of the box. Our preference is to remain in the defensive mode, defending our existing programs, saying they're working when they're not, moving away from them, fixing them or abandoning them, and perhaps responding to the actual issues that we're hearing here today and over the last week.
One of the issues we've heard about is succession planning and the inability to transfer your farm not just to children but to other related people, such as nephews, nieces, or people who are not related to you at all. I believe we're at the point where we need to look at incentives and allowing those transfers to non-related people, and promoting that kind of transfer by having a match-up program. One of the witnesses spoke about such a program last week: you try to match up retiring farmers with new--young or otherwise--farmers who want to get in but can't find the farm they want.
Could any of you speak to that idea?