It's not easy. It has been pretty hard over the last number of years, but it's not impossible. It maybe seems impossible, but I would like you to come to the Outstanding Young Farmers sometime, when they have their get-togethers in Ontario, in order to meet some of those young people who actually started from scratch.
This year we had a girl from the city, from Kitchener-Waterloo, with no farming background whatsoever. She bought her own little farm and started raising goats, marketing her own products and making her own cheese at her own little factory on the farm. Basically she processed all her goods. With not all that much invested, she's making a pretty decent living.
Sometimes we have to get very creative. We maybe just can't do everything the way dad and grandpa did. We maybe just have to get really creative. It seems almost impossible, with commodity prices the way they are.... Yes, it's pretty darn hard. We were probably lucky that we had time with us, too. It really is a time thing. If you get in at the right time, it works. If we had gotten in a couple of years earlier, it wouldn't have worked. If we had gotten in a few years later, it would have been a disaster too.
So I wouldn't say it's impossible. I still encourage young farmers. When I hear people discouraging their sons and daughters from going into farming, I still tell them that where there's a will, there's a way. It's not easy, but it's not impossible.