Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you to the witnesses.
I'm a substitute for a substitute, but I do enjoy on occasion getting back to the agriculture committee and talking to people here.
One of the things that has always struck me about where agriculture is going is how it's aging. My dad and my uncles, almost all of them, are on my dad's side farm. Of my cousins, I only have one cousin left farming.
Looking at the business risk management programs here, have you or any of your organizations given any thought to how these affect younger farmers who have bigger difficulties getting in? When a program is successful or markets go up, the cost to get into the industry is higher—farmers tend to reinvest in the land, and the price of capital goes up.
Knowing that, have you given any specific thoughts to how these programs can be set up so that new, younger entrants into farming are able to enter? We are seeing an industry that's greying much faster than the greying of the average population.
I'll throw that one open.