Agriculture committee  I would like to be able to advance the farm, and I would like to be able to allow my parents to have enough money to retire. So I would have to see a future in it before I'd jump in. Currently there isn't a future. I had suggested earlier that there needs to be some way, when th

Agriculture committee  There's really not that much. From 4-H, you maybe get 5% of the people who want to go back to the farm. What's more shocking is at junior cattle shows, people who are all from farms, there's probably 10%. Those are the best farmers who are there because they're showing their catt

Agriculture committee  I didn't really get to see my grandfather as much as I would have liked to, but I know they had larger buying power than what we have today. What I proposed in my speech, buying power being $8 a pound, would bring us back to the same buying power my grandparents had when my dad w

Agriculture committee  I like the idea of having the RRSP; however, even if my parents did the co-ownership, as you suggested, I don't think there would be enough money at the end of the day for me to make a living from the farm, as I said in my statement. So it would help me get the land and help my p

Agriculture committee  Perhaps the federal government would be interested in putting in a plan that allowed the producer to get paid directly from the product that is sold in the retail store. So perhaps that would be a taxation similar to the recycling fee we pay so that all the bottles go back and pe

Agriculture committee  Thank you. Hello. I'm Wyatt Hanson. I'm going to tell you guys a little bit about myself. I have lived on a ranch my entire life. We have operated an award-winning purebred ranch, and sold our genetics over four continents. In 2001 we decided to sell our purebred operation. We g