The following figures were taken from the Canadian Dairy Commission website dated in 2006:
Provincial Shares of Milk Share Quotas (MSQ) for Industrial Milk
Province / Percentage
Nfld & Labrador 0.3
PEI 1.8
Nova Scotia 1.1
New Brunswick 1.2
Quebec 46.5
Ontario 31.2
Manitoba 3.6
Saskatchewan 2.6
Alberta 6.3
British Columbia 5.5
…man oh man, the cow poo is getting thick in here.
Take your peeing contest somewhere else fella’s.
Go and milk a cow with cold hands and you,ll geta kick out of it
I did FREE.
I read the part where they import feed at great cost. I read the part about improving pastures and local crops for feed. I read about the existing processors and the projects to build (small by the standards of any feedlot let alone any US/Canadian processor). I read about marketing, which if I do say so doesn’t differ much from Canada.
The conclusion “Shipping feeders remains the preferred option””They can consistently get a higher price on the Mainland than they can get locally” again seems to tell me that beef production is not really all that viable b/c the cost of feed and transporting it.
It is of course a well written report. I’ve read hundreds in the past few years (and journal articles and books and news). But of course my background isn’t beef. It is grains. So maybe I am missing something.
Can you point out to me the specific sentence(s) where it says the beef market is booming and 50 million dollar plants are going up?
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On a side note:
This sentence (pg 6) was neat too “operators should be encouraged to work together toward horizontal coordination”. Horizontal coordination is also known as price fixing.
First dairy quotas are not transferable – they remain within the Province of record and any sales are handled & monitored by the Provincial milk marketing board. Currently, here in the Prov. of Ontario quota sells for $29,000.00 per cow. Quota costs/value far exceeds the total costs of land, buildings, and equipment. There are two types of milk, defined by product – fresh milk,(drinking, cottage cheese, yogurt, and cream) and industrial milk (cheeses, butter and powder). Industrial products because they store and the yields from raw milk are small percentage of total weight, lend themselves to scale of economy production, thus in U.S. they congregate in Wisconsin, in Quebec (because of Can quota laws). Contrary to some posts observations, the least cost location in Canada for milk production is by far Manitoba followed by Sask. Feed costs account for 75% of operating costs. Sewcondly both Provinces have sizeable arrable acreage yo dispose of waste – Quebec has a waste disposal problem – dairy and hogs. In addition Ontario can be economic depending on the feed grain prices with the pending new accelerated demand for ethanol from corn fueled by Gov’t. subsidy this will fade.
okay , Mike W.
clarify. yes dairy quotas are transferable but only within the province that they are in . and they are tranferrable at a price.
over quota milk goes straight down the drain.
in the world of federal milk is assimi”lait” or die.
maryjane,
Let me get this straight. You the farmer hating, farmer despising venomous troll ……blah, blah, blah…
I don’t hate nor do I despise farmers, albertaman. I hate and despise hypocrisy, particularly the loathsome, egregious, right-wing variety, of which there is no dearth on this site.
I once had {20 years ago} a Sask Dairy Producers tanker truck stop and help ne with vehicle problems in the middle of the night east of Atikokan ON. He said he hauled industrial milk to Quebec and table milk back to Sask. from Quebec.
The only difference was supposedly bacteria count.
Table milk has a lower count and receives a higher price. Quebes cows must be cleaner.
I thought what a waste of fuel but it gave this fellow a good paying job so of course the milk board was justified.
maryjane,
You have admitted being a public servant who draws off the public purse. Statistics Canada has shown that since 1999 the number of public servants has increased from 110,000 to 130,000 a growth of 20,000 while the province lost 20,000 people during that time. Remember public servants do not contribute to the tax base they only recirculate it. Hypocrisy my ass. Dippers like you pay who contibute nothing to the tax base have no right to talk about how it is spent.
I don’t believe you can price a civil servant that way. As a civil servant, cost and benefit is not the issue. Police Officers can earn a fraction of the money their actions cost consumers(speeding ticket $150) but as a group they are cost recovery. Anyway, I have a question for you pundits of wisdom. How much does quota per cow cost in Saskatchewan? I am looking at buying a dairy.