Agriculture committee  When you go to the bank they're happy to give you money, just like any other bank. You can get money. I'm not bashing the programs the government is offering, but a lot of them...we could just go to the bank to get the money. I think it's something bigger than investing in anot

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Well, anybody I've talked to in school who's a non-farmer, they personally don't know much about it. I've tried to tell them what's going on with everything, but they don't know too much. They say, “Why are you doing it? Get out of it. Why are you spending all of this money to ma

Agriculture committee  Someone who has not been in a farming family wouldn't be able to do it. They couldn't afford to go out and buy a farm, machinery, cows, and whatever they get into, and then pursue that dream, because in your lifetime, you'd never really get out of the hole. You might every now an

Agriculture committee  I think if there was a return, a lot of people would probably say, “Oh, look, this is a good occupation that would be interesting”, and then they could pursue it. I think they probably would.

Agriculture committee  Well, I'm not sure how you subsidize somebody, but maybe there could be some sort of guaranteed price in the auction barns. If you knew that you were going to get so many dollars a pound when you sold that animal, you could kind of figure out how much you could put into that anim

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Our farm is a beef farm, and it has been for a while. A few years ago, I think when I was 12, I bought sheep. I diversified into sheep. Sure it's diversification, but I don't think it's done anything. Like, you still have expensive feed, machinery--all of your expenses that go

Agriculture committee  Hi. Thank you for coming to Wiarton and talking to us about our young farmers. I've lived on a beef cow-calf farm all my life, and if I were to take over the farm I'd be the fourth-generation farmer. I currently own six heifers and close to 40 sheep. It's a profitable business

Agriculture committee  Shown in the papers here, I think it was a couple of days ago, I went on the Brussels Livestock Market website and I printed off prices of beef cattle. It's on page 3. I've written in the prices that I got from my grandma and grandpa's income tax books from 1988. As you can see