Agriculture committee  Yes, I can.

Agriculture committee  Yes. Thank you. My name is Patty Rosher. I'm the general manager of Keystone Ag Producers. KAP is the voice of Manitoba farmers on public policy issues. We work with governments, industry and stakeholders to ensure that primary agriculture in Manitoba remains profitable, susta

Agriculture committee  AgriInsurance has great uptake, certainly in Manitoba, where there is a program available for most commodities. We have been throwing around the idea of whether there is a way to make that program a bit more responsive to changes in income. It's a program that's well understood,

Agriculture committee  Our members don't have the same kind of focus on the smaller productions per se, but we are very much interested in programs for our younger farmers, who are often smaller-scale producers. We just did a series of focus group sessions with them. We wanted to understand what thei

Agriculture committee  We certainly support a technical working group. Of course, we're also a member of the CFA and part of the AGgrowth Coalition. We do think there's a role for us to play in providing that more immediate input on how farmers would perceive changes that are being proposed. Certainly,

Agriculture committee  Something we discussed with our partners in the other prairie provinces is a support program based on the U.S. one recently put in place for their soybean growers. That's a per-acre payment. We want to avoid anything that's a production volume payment: this is a per acre payment

Agriculture committee  Oh, yes. That's a very interesting point. Most of our young farmers are attached to their parents' farm. We run into city kids who want to get into agriculture, and that's great. Their entry has mostly been into market-garden farming or very small-scale direct marketing farms. Th

Agriculture committee  Okay. I don't have the answer—

Agriculture committee  That won't keep me from talking, though. FCC has a loan program specifically for young farmers that really speaks to them directly. We've had them come talk to our young farmers committee, and we can see that when you're communicating and when you really understand the needs of