After I got the call from the committee to come today, I called around to some of our local apple producers. We're also coming into our year-end, so there will be elections to the next executive for the Georgian Bay Fruit Growers Association, 67 apple growers in the Georgian Bay area.
We've worked hard at getting the younger ones to get involved. I'm sad to say that almost all of our younger ones are looking at wrapping up how they're going to run an operation; they're looking at closing down within two years. They're looking at focusing more on the retail and less on the growing. They can make a bit of money selling directly to the consumer, but they are very limited in their ability to make money growing food.