Agriculture committee  Currently in Canada, everybody sees the farmer as a 65-year-old farmer. I think one of the ways you could promote agriculture would be to take some young farmers and use them in your campaign. All of a sudden, other young people would look at it as an industry that young people are involved in, instead of just older farmers.

Agriculture committee  Are you going down the list? I've got a couple of comments.

Agriculture committee  I'll start off and just say the biggest difference I've seen is in the economies of size, from where my father started out with a small hog operation that he could run himself to when my brother and I bought him out and we had people helping. We had four employees in the barn. It was 450 sows with 4,000 acres of land, and that was just to make a reasonable income in this day and age.

Agriculture committee  Hi, my name is Rodney Voldeng. I farm with my brother in Naicam, Saskatchewan, about 100 kilometres northeast of here. I'm also the chair of the Saskatchewan Young Ag-Entrepreneurs, an organization in the province that basically considers anyone under 40 as a young person in agriculture these days.