For grassfarmer ....dairy industry

[grassfarmer]

I was once a milk farmer when this quota thing evolved and the problem with SM is that the quota price should never have been blended into the cost of milk App 30 yr ago quota was around $10/ litre what is it now I dont know but some have made millionss and all from increasae in quota pricing.

We know that's a problem but what is the solution? Scrapping SM altogether doesn't seem like a smart one. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Grass, so the dairy farmer gets 20,000 and up from the gov for nothing already getting overpaid for their milk thats why quota is so valuable dairy farmers bidding excess profits towards quota... meanwhile the rest of the ag industry is about to get tru****ed by a carbon tax

Not for nothing it's in anticipation of them having to face significantly tougher times ahead - like the Western Grain Transition Program grain farmers benefitted from in the 90's. Remember too that SM farmers don't get Agriinvest or AgriStability. Carbon tax will affect them too so no difference there.

[ag-boy]

SM has to go and now again a grant of 20000 to already guaranteed profit for quota system farming
in Montana milkprice way lower than Canada and no quata !
Holland just dropped the milk quota for the better!
milk producer have monopoly I was told by our local super store and cosco !
half butter half margarine took out off the cooler , because lost some butter share sm claimed how stupid !

this to consumer
Europe biggest sellar half /half mix .
can anybody afford the millions paid for to get starting milking 50 cows, because at 60 cows all are installing milk robot cost plus adding on

[grassfarmer]

Holland just dropped the milk quota for the better!

Er, no actually Holland like the rest of Europe scrapped milk quotas April first and the price they received for milk collapsed. Lots of dairies bankrupt in Europe. Price in the stores didn't move downwards though.

[ag-boy]

milk price mutch lower in Holland than here in Canada ! we have to pay for the high quota price here.
of course Europa never had those stupid high milk quota prices!
just returnd from Montana again 4 ltr milk 1.58 o 2 dollar lower, this tells me milk a nd chicken s/m has to go !!