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July 29th, 2015, 12:48 PM
#1
Any dairy farmers on here?
" We are more than our gender, skin color, class, sexuality or age; we are unlimited potential, and can not be defined by one label." quote A. Bartlett
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July 29th, 2015 12:48 PM
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July 29th, 2015, 01:25 PM
#2
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement TPPA would require Canada to drop its farm supply management system. It's used for other things (eggs, chicken, etc) but Canada's cornerstone of supply management is the milk quota system - and that (and all supply management) would have to go if Canada joined the TPPA.
So why are dairy farmers antsy??? Millions of dollars of milk quota would be come worthless is the biggest reason. An unstable farm income following that is a pretty big reason too.
The milk quota system... from
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1315665/
Production is controlled by a quota system. Any farmer who wants to produce milk must have a quota. They were free in the early days of supply management but not any more. The price for one quota, essentially one dai ry cow, has jumped from an average of $16,000 in the 1990s to more than $20,000 today. In some provinces a quota can cost more than $30,000. Considering that a typical dairy farmer has about 70 cows, that's roughly $2-million worth of quotas. Critics say high quota prices make it impossible for new farmers to enter the business.
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July 29th, 2015, 01:49 PM
#3
First,we lost The Canada-US Auto Pact and our auto industry all but tanked,now this. If we loose our agriculture to the same type of nonsense,we'll be in a whole world of trouble in short order.
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July 29th, 2015, 08:21 PM
#4
I'm going to have to think on that some more , but those posts helped a lot. Thanks.
" We are more than our gender, skin color, class, sexuality or age; we are unlimited potential, and can not be defined by one label." quote A. Bartlett
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