Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be splitting my time with Mr. Lawrence today.
Thank you very much for being here today. You have some great information here in your briefing.
I'm a young farmer myself and I'm very interested in some of the statistics you have in here, because as I see it—and I see this on an everyday basis—I don't see young people wanting to get into the business of agriculture anymore.
You have some statistics here saying that the farms have decreased by half, and yet there's an increase in production.
I'm wondering if you have statistics that break that down, not necessarily by commodity but by cash crops versus fresh fruit and vegetables. What I see—and I'm not sure if we do collect the data on that—is a lot of folks and young farmers getting into cash cropping or into livestock but I really don't see young farmers wanting to get into the fruit and vegetable sector. I foresee that 20 years from now we are going to have a major food security issue with being able to secure our own food here in Canada.
Can you speak to any of that?