“We are a nation of 36 million people, less than the population of California. How do you expect us to (consume) your over-supply of milk when we already produce milk for our market?”
BTW, milk is way overpriced as it is.....
Canada is right.
Surely, the dairy business saw this coming a mile down the road. They’ve had time to make new contracts with other companies. There are shortages all over the world and right here in the US. Our local grocery store is out of milk constantly. Sure, it’s due to poor management but there is a shortage that needs to be filled. Cheese could do with a market gut when boring store brand tiny 4 oz wedges cost upwards of $7-10.
$5 for four sticks of generic butter at the store yesterday.
Crazy.
So what it sounds like is Canadian processors are buying what amounts to a different product from the suppliers. It seems that processors are no longer having to purchase “ultra filtered milk”, but can use more natural, or less processed milk.
This makes me wonder what the reason was in the first place to use ultra-filtered milk, and why is it no longer necessary. Does this present some kind of risk for the consumer? Will the product change? It seems that we’ve just changed what we allow up here, which is allowing milk to be purchased from Canadian farmers rather than importing it from America.
Now I wonder another thing - who was this less-filtered milk being sold to before the change in the law? If there are now more processors purchasing Canadian milk, won’t this lead to a shortage of milk supply from our Canadian farmers? Unless we were throwing it all out, we should still need to import, I would think.
This is very interesting - I’d like to know all of the details.
I think Canada is right on this one.
This is a very peripheral issue arising primarily from federal dairy subsidies and is interconnected with many other issues that give ammo to leftists.
California dairy in particular is the issue no one wants to talk about. Liquid milk and dairy product price/availability fluctuations, drought and water issues in California that we always hear about (and all pay for through federal funding thereby creating higher taxes), illegal immigration, pro-vegetarian anti-red meat eco-wackoism, endangered species wackoism, ethanol mandates, unemployment/welfare, and a whole host of issues are are created, fueled, and or exacerbated by the scam that is California dairy.
As long as the world buys the low grade low cost byproduct of Californias various subsidies, all of these problems will continue to get worse.
Consider the chart in this article at Business Insider:
One chart sums up the real problem in the California drought — and it isn't almonds
Realize that it takes a lot more than corn to make milk and see that the total water used for milk production is approximately the same as for all other crops. They talk in part about beef production but, remember all dairy cattle are only borrowed from the beef industry. Why is there "too much" milk? Who does all that farming/milking? It isnt that guy that owns the farm. Where do farmers in such a normally dry area get all that water from? Who pays for all of that? Who is claiming there is a water shortage for someone/something else and how am I now paying for that too? Etc, etc, etc...
As long as the dairy farmers in the rest of the country see California dairy as an ally, as long as they demand subsidies and all of what that actually entails, they deserve exactly whats coming to them and so do the rest of the American people.
Only because moose milk never sold very well in the US ...