Again, I'm going to go to one of our members, who I think said it so eloquently. He said, “We're not putting a man on the moon, but we're helping to put breakfast on the table.” That, for me, is what gets me up in the morning. It's how you produce food that is going to make a difference in people's lives.
Last year when I took over as AMC's president, I toured around southern Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, and southern Ontario. It was only in the fall that somebody said it was the driest fall they've ever had.
When I was a farm girl in the 1980s, I would watch the sand, the seed, the dog, the thistles all blow away because our land was being lost to desertification. The difference between 1980s farming and today's farming is no till. In that way, how we farm is a huge difference in how we are able to increase the yields and not have world food shortages. It's the tillage machinery, the seeding equipment. Those are the types of things that I think are key in our industry.