Agriculture committee  I don't know if you know it, but the original movement for Ontario to get out of the wheat pool originated in Middleton. When Ontario farmers decided they wanted to market their own wheat, the original motion came from this area. I think for the first two years they got laughed o

Agriculture committee  Well, when I started here I had three levels: if everything goes right, if everything goes wrong, and somewhere in the middle.

Agriculture committee  With a premium.

Agriculture committee  I agree with Jamie. It's to keep you in so that you don't lose your shirt, but it's not something whereby I'd be able to go out and buy a Cadillac with the program. That's part of the problem with the programs now. Some people.... If you farm enough, that's a big income coming in

Agriculture committee  I don't really pay much attention to cashflow. At the end of the year I do an accrual statement, and that means something to me. Like Jamie said about cashflow, it can change a lot, but an accrual statement at the end of the year...then I know what I did.

Agriculture committee  Life has been good for quite a few years. If you do your year-end and you do a proper one, it's been good.

Agriculture committee  I touched on this earlier. I think if we have programs, they have to be cash..... Let's say you're in the cash crop industry and it's a bad year, and say your subsidy money works out to $100 an acre; if you have 100 acres, that's $10,000. Well, there are some guys running 5,000 o

Agriculture committee  About three or four years ago we got cut off at the bank too. The biggest problem is that for anything over $100,000, they have to go to Toronto. We went to a credit union. The bank lost a lot of good customers, and they all went to credit unions because they were dealing with th

Agriculture committee  I'd like to thank Bev for inviting me. I think he invited me because he knows that what I'm going to say is going to be completely off the wall. My parents came to Canada in the early fifties. They were part of the Dutch wave of immigrants who came looking for the opportunity f