Conference Board gears up for food conference

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It is embarassing to be a farmer, and continually endure high-paid spinmeisters from DFO try to make anyone, especially those great many Canadian consumers who regularly go to the US to buy dairy products, believe there is no connection between 200% tariff barriers and prices paid by Canadian consumers of milk and dairy products.

Come on, Mr. Doyle, the Canadian wine and grape industry sang the same sad lament before NFTA, yet has done spectaculary well in the very environment you claim will ruin the dairy industry.

Given basic economic and business truths, and the post-NAFTA experience of our grape and wine industry, it's not too hard to conclude that the "fallacies", "mis-leading assertions", and "bad business advice" is all coming from the dairy industry.

Stephen Thompson, Clinton ON

Of course our Beef and Pork Industries have been such great free-trade ambassadors over the years.

Why do we want our Dairy and Chicken sectors to suffer the same fate as those other two?

Should be noted that Canada could also break the top 5 in World importers of food as well.

If your having a National Food Conference shouldn't that be brought up as well ?

Do the Canadian dairy have weak knees that theory have to be protected for a little bit of competition?
I believe there need to be more farmers to feed the world. Now it isn't possible to start up a dairy operation in Canada without a big inheritance?

Most younger farmers like myself (35) would be ready to start milking cows tomorrow if the market opened up. if beef farmers have been able to keep our heads above water in the beef business since 2002(BSE) then i am more then confident that i could milk cows and sell milk at the world price and make a living the honest way with out the government subsidies the same way I've been able to in the beef business. I would milk Simmental cows and market my bulls into the beef sector and i am positive i could milk 50 cows and make a good living just like i can in the beef business, I grow 100% of all my feed and my over head is very low and it makes for a viable farm operation, I dont need to get rich, i am happy making a fair living.

Sean McGivern

Its interesting to read the reasons for and against SM. We read about saving the family farms in Ontario, and then read about the debate between the 2 dairy farmers re maintaining present quota policy or changing it to allow the ' LARGER'' operations to expand by buying up smaller ones with higher and higher quota dollars. Does this not prove that having larger operations with no quotas at all would lead to lower consumer prices? If truth be known we only need half the present number of dairy farms to supply our market.

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