When returns drop, farmers start tightening their belts.

Sheep farmers are facing tougher times after five years of good lamb prices, while wool prices are at 30-year lows.

When returns drop, farmers start tightening their belts. This flows through the rural economy and will have a significant impact on rural servicing towns and provincial cities, where the buoyant agriculture sector has really been the driver of positive economic activity.

We anticipate someday water will flow down Long Pond Road to Cedarville and that's part of our water master plan, which is in draft form right now and scheduled to be ready by Christmas.

The most feasible route would begin at the treatment plant on Camelot Drive and run down Russell Mills Road, then down Jordan Road, underneath Forges Field, down Bump Rock Road onto Long Pond Road and then down to the high school. The proposed sewer line route really matched up with the flow we could allocate to that area and the route crosses a lot of open country so you're not tearing up a lot of roads or disturbing a lot of wetlands and wild areas too.

They have our paving contract this year, so obviously, this is something we'll be watching very closely. We're very concerned about it.