SM5 Quota may well be worth more under TPP!

[tmyrfield]

Anyone who defends supply management should really go to wisconsin and sample the cheeses and dairy products there. Freshness and shelf life is unbelievable. Taste and texture also amazing. Cdn marketing boards are always dealing with over production because of artificial high prices, hence production held back till almost end of shelf life, milk, cream cheese all spoil in the fridge thereby increasing demand. crazy system whereby just a few benefit but manage to squander all the benefits by bidding up value of quotas to such a high value that really no one except some very wealthy families benefit. Everyone else has to pay more for a very substandard product.

[vvalk]

sawfly of course he will do healthcare. I bet you run your farm where your expenses increase at 3 or 4% more then your income. How will you pay for healthcarfe when its increases double or triple of GDP

[cottonpicken]

Buy are oil buy our lumber buy our grain. Wait what you want to sell cheese eggs and milk now hold up there we Aint buying your stuff you just buy our stuff

[newguy]

Not a game changer as far as the election goes.Way too much Harper baggage too shed .

[BFW]

I want to know will I be able to start a dairy without purchasing quota here and sell product into the current system then as well as to an export market?

[Braveheart]

We have entered the draw for chicken quota here for the past few years. Haven't won yet. We may have to rethink the future, although probably not. In fact the future might be brighter.

[wmoebis]

Agree BFW will I be able to go to a local dairy and buy milk to feed my family or to give to my cats for that matter?

[Braveheart]

BFW, I'm not sure you'd want a dairy without the protection of subsidy equivalent supply managed.

The one thing I miss about not milking cows is the fat cats. Now I have to go to the Manitoba Legislature to see them (gov't side).

[BFW]

you may be correct Braveheart of whether one should do it or not but will we be able to without purchasing quota?

[BFW]

If I can start a dairy without quota then a am quite a bit more competitive than most dairy operations in Canada assuming I have access to processing capacity. The drop in the value of quota and the hit to the balance sheet of most dairy operations will be the problem whether or not the government keeps them whole on a cost of production basis. Just wondering...