quotas as in milk and poultry

[grassfarmer]

Yep, it's all about choices and priorities. Many of the "low income" families are the ones with the big vehicle payments, always in front of you in the queue at the gas station buying smokes and lottery tickets but can't afford milk - give me a break. All the moaning about need for food-banks and poverty in our rural communities is not the reality I see for the most part. Way more problems caused by too much food instead of too little.
Nothing wrong with a "house cow" in my book - we were brought up with them and it taught us how to milk at an early age, gave a daily commitment to tend for an animal and a warm barn chore to do before heading out for the day. That's the kind of one to one animal interaction some of the horse owners indulge $thousands a year for.

[ALLFARMER]

gaucho I would suspect we spend about what you do a year maybe a little less. We maybe once every three weeks by potato chips and it is very rare to have pop in this house like 8x a year maybe. The biggest difference is the sale of booze is banned and bar's are not allowed in this town. How may town in Alberta can say that? If you want a drink bad enought its a one hour drive away. It's is a little thing that makes quite a difference.

[DogPatch]

Price of milk is lower because of US Government subsidies. AND some stores will us milk as a lost leader, and easily make it up on something else.

[burnt]

No kidding, Dogpatch, but it is those artificially low prices that CDN consumers think should be the norm here.

We buy our milk weekly for $3.99/4L at either of two stores in our area that do that same thing.

[ag-boy]

yes it did the job after that meeting in Brooks [wilson report ] had 23 replys ! but most of them mist the point .
quota does unfairly increase or product .of chicken and milk !
take this quota paper for 50 milkcows as a sample they are paying over 2 million dollar for . in Alberta
this price is tacked on our milk here so consumer pay over 5 dollar for a jug of milk
here in Montana between 2.65 and 3.45 same jug !!!! no quotas
who can start milking at this price of quota !then have to buy cows and barn etc and hire labour .
same calculation is for the chicken quota all ia added to production cost and price is set by the board .
thanks for that many reply to this topic
this make AGR-VILLE .COM very interesting reading

[burnt]

Simple solution for you. Move to the U.S. where there is no quota, the US buck is low, your land here is high and go right at it and milk cows to your heart's content.

You will be doing the additional service of providing the US consumers with very affordable milk.

Just kidding. You make a good point about the start up cost - it cannot be done unless one is independently wealthy. The risk in milk production is no longer the marketplace - it lies in the system that was set up to protect producers FROM the market place. Kinda funny, really!