How would you vote on the CWB

[FarmRanger]

<i>"Marketing boards aren't perfect but they
saved the industry and protect the consumer as
well as the producer."</i>

If by "saved" you mean making multi-millionaire
retired dairy farmers and by "protect" you mean
increasing the price to the consumer.

[Ruken]

FarmRanger, I'm good with both aspects of your comment. When is food free day in Canada, sometime in February? Why should that be at our expense?

[FarmRanger]

I don't know when food freedom day is, nor shoe
freedom nor toilet paper freedom day for that
matter. Making dairy freedom day three or four
days further into the year doesn't ultimately help
the dairy industry either.  

Does it improve a young dairy farmers profitability
when he has to pay tens of thousands of dollars
to a retiring dairy farmer for the license to milk a
cow?  Who benefits and who pays?  Why make
a single mother pay $5.00 more for a block of
cheese so a dairy farmer can sell his quota for
tens of thousands?  

In my mind the whole thing is an example of
good intentions resulting in bad policy.

[grassfarmer]

Does it improve a farmers profitability
when he has to pay thousands of dollars
to a retiring farmer to buy his land?

I don't see the value attached to milk quota as any more of a deterrent to new entrants than land prices on beef or grain farms.

[FarmRanger]

Think about why land has value and where that
value comes from.

[Choice2U]

The grain industry consolidated over the past 20 years because farmers had their backs to the wall. The dairy industry consolidated because of the guaranteed profit to be made. For you socialists, don't you feel a little hypocritical that you enabled capitalism to flourish unfettered where profit consolidated the dairy industry far faster than the grains to the point where you have put the wealth into the hands of a few. When the 110 dairy farmers in SK are down to 25 and the quota value is at $50K per cow, will you still be holding up the dairy industry as a sacred cow...pun intended.

[BTOfarmallll]

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