I would just echo that a lot of the farms are going to be transferred out of the family. Some of it is because farmers farm until they are so old that their kids have grown up and have their own careers. Then they are ready to pass on the farm, but they won't let go. A number of people talk about the struggle; they just can't farm with their parents. I think that's just a reality. That's not a bad thing. But then there need to be other opportunities for them to farm in their communities. Then there need to be transfer strategies once that farm is going to be transferred out of their hands.
We have created a platform, farmlink.net, which is designed to link landowners with farm seekers. We've actually been working a lot with the municipalities about what they could do, because they see this happening, and they see farm consolidations, and they see people moving out of their communities, which means that the fabric of these rural communities starts to disintegrate.
They want to know how to bring new people in. It doesn't mean there won't be farm family transfers, but there will be other new people in the mix, and there are lots of ways to encourage it. I probably can't detail them all today, but there are financial interventions, there are capital gains tax breaks that could be created, there are incentives for succession planning, because we get phone callers who say they want to sell their farm by the end of the weekend. “It's $5 million; find me a new farmer.” I'm not kidding. That's who calls us. They really should have started 10 years ago, because it has to be a progression.