Category Archives: Agriculture (Rural)

(January 22, 2001) Responses to dairy-farmers-are-milking-canadian-consumers. Continue reading →

(January 16, 2001) Canadian dairy products, thanks to our ingenious system of milk marketing boards, are among the best bargains available — if you’re an American corporation. Americans and others who operate in international markets, can buy Canadian cheese and other Canadian milk products at free- market prices or less. That’s because Canada’s milk marketing system — a byzantine complex of quotas and other controls — overcharges Canadians for milk and milk products whenever it can, and then uses the profits to subsidize both dairy farmers and exporters. Continue reading →

(January 12, 2001) It’s a pleasure being here in Simcoe County, at a conference where so many of the presentations are focused on how to improve your technology and your business, to become competitive. That is the key to the future of the dairy industry, and I commend you and the organizers for it. It will be a bright future if you keep your eye on that ball. Continue reading →

(November 14, 2000) Lawrence Solomon knows the way to make farming environmentally, socially and economically sustainable: eliminate all farm supports, including crop insurance, NISA, AIDA and supply management. “No one should need encouragement to farm or do anything else,” Solomon, executive director of the Toronto-based Urban Renaissance Institute, an environmental organization, told the ‘Recapturing Wealth on the Canadian prairies’ conference here recently. Continue reading →