By Kevin Hursh

Dairy farming in perspective

Nov 24, 2010 | 7:11 AM

for paNOW

The George Morris Centre, an agricultural think tank located at Guelph, has just released a great paper on Canada’s supply management system for the dairy industry.

Authored by Al Mussell, he paper argues for a reasoned analysis of the system, rather than the polarized debate we typically hear. There are also a lot of interesting statistics that help put the dairy industry into perspective.

There are nearly 13,000 dairy farms in Canada, down from almost 30,000 in 1993. In recent times, quota values in Ontario have been maintained at $25,000 per kilogram of butterfat.

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