Canadian dairy farmer

That's the price he pays for getting above world market prices. He has to control his output. He'd be working for less if he moved south. As a US dairy farmer, I'm not simpathetic in the least.

I'm guessing he'd be the 1st to whine if the border was completely opened, too.

I'm not upset with Canada's system... it's just he should recognize when he has it good. If you listened to the video, he immigrated from another country to Canada. He could have chosen NZ or US or Australia if he wanted a free market.
 
This guy is full of BS! First of all you can go buy 4 litres of milk for less than $7.00. He is lying to you right off the start. Second, he came to Canada by choice, knowing fully well that there was a supply management system in place in Canada. If he didnt like it , why did he choose to come here and buy into the system? I can tell you why, because he couldnt milk cows in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands they are about to reduce the number of cows a farmer can keep, in an attempt to reduce methane emissions. And I think that the most important point here is that this man is the architect of his own misfortune. He needs to match his production to his quota allotment. He knows how much milk he needs to produce to fill his quota, so why doesnt cut back on the number of cows he is milking and manage his supply? Or simply adjust his ration so his cows dont produce more milk than his farm has quota for. There isnt anyone holding a gun to his head making him be a dairy producer. And no one is forcing him to stay in Canada, he moved here, and knew the system was already operating before he was born. Perhaps he should strike off for another country and try his luck there ? Did he mention that he is getting paid .95 cents per litre for his milk ?? Or that his farm land is valued at $20,000.00 per acre? Or that his milk quota for his 250 cows would sell for 6 million dollars? His farm can produce 188,000/ litres of milk in a 30 day month. So the monthly milk check would be right around $178,000.00 . He didnt mention any of these facts because he wants you to think hes being miss treated, and hard done by because he cant manage his farm within the rules he agreed to produce milk in when he move to Ontario, Canada from Europe. Dont feel sorry for him, hes a greedy guy, and wants to write his own rules.
 
I'm standing on a box applauding you Bruce. I'm 110% fed up with extremist cry babies who only shoot off their mouths to get attention and give consumers misinformation to spread on social media. That's he biggest reason I don't say much at all on here anymore. I know the posters who feed on this garbage and I avoid their posts, and I'd rather hold the end of a red hot poker while eating live bees than get involved in this daily roll in the hog manure. Thanks for taking the time to say what needed to be said.
 
(quoted from post at 08:26:42 02/01/23) Needs to buy some hogs or chickens to feed the milk to

Much easier to just cut back the high-energy ration and produce less milk. In other words, quit stuffing them full of grain. The reduced feed bill more than makes up for the loss of production.

Dairy farmers are the ONLY farmers who expect the distribution level to buy all their product no matter how much they overproduce. If you've got vegetables you can't get rid of because you grew too many and there's no market for them before they go bad, you get to keep them.

Here in the US they just lower the commodity price of milk, for all the good it does. When the price goes down, the answer is to add on, push the cows harder, make up for the shortfall on volume. When the price goes up, the answer is to add on, push the cows harder, and take advantage of the high prices.
 
I should point out also that the system isnt as ridge as
this gentleman would have you believe. There is a
production sleeve, which allows him to produce 10
days worth of his herds production over his quota and
receive full payment for his milk on the 10 days of over
production, before he would face any penalty for
shipping milk over his quota. So he knew he was over
producing last month and probably the month before
as well, but didnt manage his production. And over
the las 8 months his farm would have been given 4%
quota increase free of charge, to match up with market
increases. So this farm would have been given roughly
$150,000.00 worth of production quota at no cost.
 
We used to have a base/excess system very similar to that here. You'd set base in the winter and the following year's base and base price was calculated using that production. You got less for surplus. A new producer sold for what was called Adjusted Blend. Reagan put an end to that system and everybody sells what would have been blend price. I won't comment on what I think now with 40 years of hindsight on that administration. I'll just say that most of what was done worked well for what needed to be done at the time, but proved to be not so smart in the long run.
 
All that said guess what the average consumer gets from the story which about sums it up.Farmer is forced by the system to dump food that millions of staving people desperately need in order to keep the price of milk
up above what many readers can afford.Talk about terrible PR that is it,gives the system and all farmers a black eye.
 
Oh cry me a river. Like Bruce said, he knew the rules. He's just crying because there's no more quota available for him to buy so he can fill the 350 cow barn he built when he should have built for 250, which is what he has for quota. The underlying punch of his sob story is the same old one.. take that quota from someone else because he has lots of milk.... and needs the quota. He should try milking 270 instead of 290 and then he won't be over quota.

Rod
 
I raised a 4H grand champion pig feeding it corn soaked in milk.

A neighbor kid used milk and day old bread.
 
Here in the US they just lower the commodity price of milk, for
all the good it does. When the price goes down, the answer is to
add on, push the cows harder, make up for the shortfall on volume.
When the price goes up, the answer is to add on, push the cows
harder, and take advantage of the high prices.

I've said that for 40 years.

People still look at me like I am
crazy!
 

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