Dairy in Ontario Talk - Ontario Agriculture2024-03-28T21:23:23Zhttps://ontag.farms.com/forum/categories/dairy-in-ontario-talk/listForCategory?categoryId=3646443%3ACategory%3A146&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLooking for a Dynamic Speaker to Speak About Stray Voltage on Dairy Farmstag:ontag.farms.com,2013-05-07:3646443:Topic:403172013-05-07T17:48:14.636ZGrey Bruce Farmers' Weekhttps://ontag.farms.com/profile/GreyBruceFarmersWeek
<p>We are planning GBFW 2014 in Elmwood next January. As part of our Dairy Day Program we would like to have a dynamic speaker to address the topic of Stray Voltage on Ontario Dairy Farms - Prevalence, Causes, Symptoms and Solutions. Anyone have any ideas for great Speakers for this subject matter? I appreciate your help! (Dairy Day will be January 10, 2014.)</p>
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<p>We are planning GBFW 2014 in Elmwood next January. As part of our Dairy Day Program we would like to have a dynamic speaker to address the topic of Stray Voltage on Ontario Dairy Farms - Prevalence, Causes, Symptoms and Solutions. Anyone have any ideas for great Speakers for this subject matter? I appreciate your help! (Dairy Day will be January 10, 2014.)</p>
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<p>Lorie</p> This is the summer of music parody farm videos, this one is a favourite. Feel free to share any you know of here.tag:ontag.farms.com,2012-07-25:3646443:Topic:330562012-07-25T12:34:49.223ZOntAG Adminhttps://ontag.farms.com/profile/OntAGAdmin
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</p> Very entertaining! Young dairy farmers' "From Sussex and I Know It" music video ... too much time in the tractor maybe?tag:ontag.farms.com,2012-06-02:3646443:Topic:323492012-06-02T13:36:31.291ZAgOntariohttps://ontag.farms.com/profile/AgOntario
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</p> Restaurant Industry Wants to "Free Your Milk" Lobbying Aggressively Against Supply Management.tag:ontag.farms.com,2011-11-24:3646443:Topic:284732011-11-24T03:55:18.990ZJoe Daleshttps://ontag.farms.com/profile/JoeDales
<h1>Free Your Milk: Restaurant Industry Leaders Appeal to Dairy Commission for Action on Inflated Prices</h1>
<p><i>Outdated supply management policies restrict growth of Canadian dairy market</i></p>
<p align="left"><span class="xn">OTTAWA</span>, <span class="xn">Nov. 22, 2011</span> /CNW/ - The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association (CRFA) will appear before the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) today calling for relief from artificially inflated dairy prices. More reasonable prices…</p>
<h1>Free Your Milk: Restaurant Industry Leaders Appeal to Dairy Commission for Action on Inflated Prices</h1>
<p><i>Outdated supply management policies restrict growth of Canadian dairy market</i></p>
<p align="left"><span class="xn">OTTAWA</span>, <span class="xn">Nov. 22, 2011</span> /CNW/ - The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association (CRFA) will appear before the Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) today calling for relief from artificially inflated dairy prices. More reasonable prices will allow restaurants to put more milk, cheese and other dairy products on their menus and help to reverse a trend of declining consumer demand for dairy products.</p>
<p>The CRFA will present to the CDC's three-person board of directors, which holds closed meetings to set the price of industrial milk, used to make cheese and other dairy products.</p>
<p>"Canadian restaurants buy over <span class="xn">$2.7 billion</span> worth of dairy products each year and we are concerned by the artificially high, government-fixed prices as set by the CDC," says CRFA President and CEO <span class="xn">Garth Whyte</span>. "Over the past decade, the price of industrial milk has been rising faster than inflation and faster than the cost of dairy production. Canadian consumers deserve a break."</p>
<p>Data from the CDC and Statistics <span class="xn">Canada</span> indicate that the price of industrial milk has increased almost 10 times faster than the cost of production since 1994. Even during years where cost of production fell, the CDC did not pass on savings to Canadian dairy consumers.</p>
<p>"We need reasonable pricing if we are going to grow the dairy industry in <span class="xn">Canada</span>," says Whyte. "Our members tell us that dairy products are being priced right off the menu."</p>
<p>The CDC's closed-door pricing sessions follow the launch of CRFA's Free Your Milk campaign (<a href="http://www.freeyourmilk.ca/">www.freeyourmilk.ca</a>), designed to draw attention to the 40-year-old supply management policies responsible for inflating the cost of dairy in <span class="xn">Canada</span> to double the international market average. The Free Your Milk campaign grew from consumer research commissioned by CRFA that found 70% of Canadians feel that keeping the cost of milk and dairy products down is very or somewhat important.</p>
<p>"We are encouraged that the government is finally starting to consider the real costs and the opportunity costs of our current dairy system when it comes to international trade and access to growing world markets," says Whyte. "While we look forward to a fair and transparent system in the future, today we are focused on a fair price for Canadian consumers and restaurant operators."</p>
<p align="left"><b>About the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association</b></p>
<p>The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association (CRFA) is one of Canada's largest business associations, representing more than 30,000 members across the country in every sector of the vibrant foodservice industry, including restaurants, bars, cafeterias, coffee shops and contract and social caterers. Canada's <span class="xn">$63-billion</span> foodservice industry employs more than one million people in communities across the country. Through advocacy, research, member savings and industry events, we help our members grow and prosper.</p> Supply management is in the spotlight again. What will this mean for the dairy, chicken, egg & turkey farmers?tag:ontag.farms.com,2011-10-24:3646443:Topic:255672011-10-24T14:49:55.457ZOntAG Adminhttps://ontag.farms.com/profile/OntAGAdmin
<p>With the recent articles in Canadian Business and Globe and Mail, are the supply management groups the next to be under review? What are the issues and what needs to be changed? What will this mean for these Ontario and Quebec's farmers?</p>
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<p>Here is the article from <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/all-farmers-are-equal-but-some-are-more-equal-than-others/article2210773/" target="_blank">today's Globe and Mail</a>:</p>
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<p>With the recent articles in Canadian Business and Globe and Mail, are the supply management groups the next to be under review? What are the issues and what needs to be changed? What will this mean for these Ontario and Quebec's farmers?</p>
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<p>Here is the article from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/all-farmers-are-equal-but-some-are-more-equal-than-others/article2210773/">today's Globe and Mail</a>:</p>
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<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple" style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px/15px Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px;">At first blush, this sounds like a pretty reasonable motto for an ag minister raised on a Saskatchewan farm. Who doesn’t like farmers, after all? They do tough, essential work that feeds us all.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple" style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px/15px Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px;">The catch is that “farmers first” often implies “consumers last.” And what Mr. Ritz really means is that some farmers come first, but not all farmers.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple" style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; background-color: #ffffff; text-indent: 0px; font: 13px/15px Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000; word-spacing: 0px;">As the Harper government pushes ahead with long-promised legislation to overhaul the<span class="Apple"> </span><strong style="margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Canadian Wheat Board,</strong><span class="Apple"> </span>Ottawa’s incoherent and intellectually dishonest farm policy is now on full display.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The government is stripping the wheat board of its grain-marketing monopoly on the grounds that farmers deserve free and open markets, like their brethren in potatoes, cattle, fruits and vegetables. Mr. Ritz insists farmers should choose how they market their products so they can “attract investment, encourage innovation and create value-added jobs.”</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">But that doesn’t apply to dairy, egg, chicken and turkey farmers. These farmers operate in a hermetically sealed regime marked by tight central control of production, the near-total exclusion of imports, and higher prices for everyone.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">And the government has made it quite clear that’s the way it should be. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he’s ready to defend the so-called supply management system, now and forever.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Beyond history, it’s hard to figure out what makes a dairy farmer so different from a cattle rancher or an apple grower. If open markets are so clearly in the best interests of grain farmers in Western Canada, why aren’t they also good for the dairy farmers of Quebec and Ontario?</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The answer, of course, is politics in a country where rural areas are still overly represented in the House of Commons. Supply management has become a proxy for rural entitlement and protection of family farms – a message that helped the Conservatives to a sweep outside the major cities in Southern Ontario in the May election. And by retaining the regime, Mr. Harper presumably calculates he will keep those seats four years from now.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">There is no sound economic or policy rationale for keeping supply management. The government is sacrificing the interests of 34 million Canadians for the sake of fewer than 15,000 dairy and poultry farmers.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">For a government that claims to put the economy first, the farm-vote calculation is cynical.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Supply management is “a blight on the economic landscape and totally unjustifiable in a world of skyrocketing global dairy prices,” the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development concluded in its 2008 review of the Canadian economy.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Every year the distortions caused by the system grow larger. Canadians may not realize it when they go to the grocery store, but they’re paying twice the world average for dairy products – and up to three times what Americans pay. That’s a hidden $3-billion a year tax on all of us.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Roughly half the money flows back to dairy farmers, making them richer than other farmers, who work just as hard. Bloated government agencies and marketing boards soak up a significant chunk of the rest.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">That’s only part of the cost to consumers. Because Canada must restrict imports to maintain this closed system, our trading partners block the sale of certain Canadian products in their markets. Canada has been shunned from ongoing talks toward a regional Asia-Pacific trade pact because Ottawa won’t budge on supply management.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">The OECD also pointed out that supply management hits the poor the hardest because they spend proportionately more on food than other Canadians.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nor is supply management saving the family farm. Indeed, the system keeps young farmers out of the business by creating prohibitive barriers to entry. When the supply-management system was started in the early 1970s, farmers were allocated free production quotas. If you want to buy a cow and sell milk now, it will cost you an average of $26,000 per cow to buy quota. A typical dairy farm could have $2-million or more needlessly tied up in production quotas.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">In all, Canadian farmers have $28-billion of their assets invested in supply management quotas, representing 2 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product. And every year an average of more than 2,500 farms disappear as small operations give way to fewer, larger, factory farms.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Forget all the economic distortions and the steep consumer price. Supply management goes against the Conservative government’s own clearly articulated free-market farm principles and vigorous defence of property rights.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4; margin: 12px 0px 0px; outline-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mr. Harper and Mr. Ritz readily acknowledge that free markets drive innovation, spur investment and create value-added jobs. Yet they are ready to go to the wall to defend a Soviet-style system for some farmers that does just the opposite.</p>
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Dairy is a complex issue of which I have an appreciation for.... but I am very curious about a matter and I would dearly love an answer to a question.<br/><br/><br/>Who actually owns the dairy quota in Ontario? Does the board own the quota or do farmers own the quota?<br/><br/><br/><br/>
Dairy is a complex issue of which I have an appreciation for.... but I am very curious about a matter and I would dearly love an answer to a question.<br/><br/><br/>Who actually owns the dairy quota in Ontario? Does the board own the quota or do farmers own the quota?<br/><br/><br/><br/> Ohio Dairy Farm Animal Abuse Video Outrages the Ag Industry...find out more...what do you think?tag:ontag.farms.com,2010-05-27:3646443:Topic:52052010-05-27T17:44:50.000ZAgOntariohttps://ontag.farms.com/profile/AgOntario
<h2>Shaun Haney has this great post on his website RealAgriculture.com outlining the events and follow up from the video released on the animal abuse on an Ohio Dairy Farm. What are your comments?</h2>
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<h2>Mercy For Animals Ohio Dairy Farm Video Outrages the Agricultural Industry</h2>
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<p>An undercover surveillance video was released this week by Mercy for Animals that is maybe one of the most disturbing things I have…</p>
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<h2>Shaun Haney has this great post on his website RealAgriculture.com outlining the events and follow up from the video released on the animal abuse on an Ohio Dairy Farm. What are your comments?</h2>
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<h2>Mercy For Animals Ohio Dairy Farm Video Outrages the Agricultural Industry</h2>
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<p>An undercover surveillance video was released this week by Mercy for Animals that is maybe one of the most disturbing things I have ever witnessed in agriculture. Shot over a thirty day period on the Conklin Dairy Farm in Ohio, the video shows the dairy’s hired man pitchforking the stomach of a calf, head stomping and extreme physical abuse. One could take the opinion that this is just the case of one bad apple tainting the rest of us but…..I think we as an industry need to be proactive and begin to work harder to prevent these sort of actions ever taking place again.</p>
<p>I will admit that I have tried to watch the video on three occasions and still have not made it through the video. The behavior showcased is not being “old school” or “show him who’s the boss,” this is sadistic. I really don’t have any answers but we need to get this out of our industry. I know many dairy farmers, ranchers and feedyard owners and I have never ever seen this kind of brutality or believe that this sort of animal care would be condoned by anyone. The livestock producers of North America do care about the livestock that they keep and treat it with the most respect. I plead you to not take this as common practice on the farms across this continent. Animals are not our slaves as alleged by activists, but farmers across the continent treat our animals with care and respect.</p>
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<p>If you are interested to see the Mercy for Animals Video, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYTkM1OHFQg" target="_self">click here</a>, but I must warn you this is extremely sadistic behavior and viewer discretion is advised.</p>
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<p><a href="http://causematters.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/dark-secrets-of-farms/" target="_blank">Check out Michele Payn-Knoper’s Opinion</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.embraceyourheart.com/blog/2010/05/26/hey-quit-picking-on-my-friends-why-i-thank-a-farmer/" target="_self">Check out Eliz Greene’s Opinion</a></p>
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<p>As an industry we need to figure out how to rid ourselves of these sort of terrible behaviors and terrible situations. Although not regular this is an embarrassment and outrage for our industry. The man found in this tape has been <a href="http://www.buckeyeag.com/article.php?aid=20100526140721457" target="_blank">taken into custody</a>, and rightfully so. In this case it was a farm employee who is caught on tape and the Conklin’s (farm owner) were not involved allegedly. So how do we prevent this from happening? Do we need to better educate our employees? Is the answer more monitoring? Is the answer training and certification for the people that work with livestock? The trouble is that I don’t think that any level of training or coaching could of changed the behavior of this brutal individual. As an industry we need to make sure that this type of behavior never happens again.</p>
<p>With saying all of this there is also criticism for Mercy for Animals and how they handled this situation. My Twitter buddy <a href="http://www.twitter.com/farmerhaley" target="_blank">Mike Haley</a> a farmer in Ohio discusses this situation in agreat and informative post entitled, “<a href="http://commonsenseagriculture.blogspot.com/2010/05/guest-post-undercover-agendas.html" target="_blank">UnderCover Agendas</a>.” Mike does a great job of discussing the questions around, why did Mercy for Animals let this behavior happen for 30 days which allowed these animals to suffer longer. Secondly, the accusations by Mercy for Animals and HSUS that this is common practice on farms across the US and consumers need to “ditch milk.” Thirdly Mike discusses how this video was released screams an agenda that is really not about saving the animals in the video but really about pushing the anti-agriculture agenda of HSUS in Ohio.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.buckeyeag.com/WaynePacelle2.mp3" target="_blank">Listen to an interview with Wayne Pacelle, HSUS by BuckEyeAg</a></p>
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<p>Below is an interview compliments of <a href="http://www.agweb.com/" target="_blank">AgWeb</a>, with the Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. He responds to the Ohio Dairy Farm video<br/>If you cannot the the below video, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3v2NjQI42Q&feature=youtu.be&a">click here</a><br/> <object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="385"><param name="_cx" value="12700"></param><param name="_cy" value="10186"></param><param name="FlashVars" value=""></param><param name="Movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S3v2NjQI42Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"></param><param name="Src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S3v2NjQI42Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"></param><param name="WMode" value="Window"></param><param name="Play" value="0"></param><param name="Loop" value="-1"></param><param name="Quality" value="High"></param><param name="SAlign" value="LT"></param><param name="Menu" value="-1"></param><param name="Base" value=""></param><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="never"></param><param name="Scale" value="NoScale"></param><param name="DeviceFont" value="0"></param><param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"></param><param name="BGColor" value=""></param><param name="SWRemote" value=""></param><param name="MovieData" value=""></param><param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"></param><param name="Profile" value="0"></param><param name="ProfileAddress" value=""></param><param name="ProfilePort" value="0"></param><param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"></param><param name="AllowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/S3v2NjQI42Q&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" allowscriptaccess="never"></embed></object>
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</div> Lameness in Cows Researchtag:ontag.farms.com,2010-01-20:3646443:Topic:35902010-01-20T16:14:36.000ZAndrew Campbellhttps://ontag.farms.com/profile/AgriNewsHound
There is research going on in the province - looking at how to better manage lameness in cattle. Take a look at this video produced by students to see the latest information being found...…<br></br><br></br>
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