Agriculture committee  Any measures that can help farm succession would be useful. The thing we have to bear in mind is whether the basic farm unit is a viable and profitable enterprise. There is no point in turning over something that isn't a viable and profitable enterprise. That's the first question

Agriculture committee  My plane leaves at 7:30.

Agriculture committee  We see a number of business problems that young farmers do encounter--not having individual business plans--and on page 8 of our brief we list a number of those. We won't have time to go into them all in detail. A business plan is important, as is having the flexibility and the

Agriculture committee  That completes our submission. Thank you very much.

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We are members of the Alberta Ag Business Consultants group, which is a voluntary organization of people who used to work under the Canadian farm business advisory program under the previous APF renewal chapter. My name is Art Lange, and my

Agriculture committee  Other members of our group who helped with our brief are Larry Lindquist, Larry Morin, and Gordon Williams. And there was me, of course. Collectively, we have experience doing over 500 business plans for farmers, so we think we have a good base of knowledge about what goes on in

Agriculture committee  We feel that future farmers, young or maybe not, will come from three main groups. First are those who are farming on a commercial scale and are building on a farm business that may have been started one, two, or even three generations ago. These people are likely to be producing