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PG. 4 THE RURAL VOICE/DECEMBER 1981
LETTERS
Free quota!!!
1 am writing in regard to the article in
the November issue of the Rural Voice
(Free Quota) by Keith Roulston.
Mr. Roulston stated that quota must be
free and distributed to those who need it
most. Things don't work that way in
Canada. You don't take from those that
have and give to those that don't.
I started dairy farming in 1949,
shipping milk to a Condensary. It was not
many years until I found out that I started
broke and would be that way forever.
I knew some dairy farmers who were
shipping milk to dairies that had
marketing stability and were better off
financially. In order to stay in the dairy
business we knew we would have to try
and get a fluid milk base with a dairy. At
that time the only way it could be done
was to buy an on-going dairy operation,
paying more than the farm was worth just
to have the marketing rights to ship milk
to a dairy. In most cases it was a small
Base and there was no way one could
increase it.
When the O.M.M.B. came into being
in 1965 it was to give everyone a chance
to market milk to their farming needs.
The graduated entry program was set
up so that the fluid milk markt was
available to all producers who could meet
the necessary standards. It still works
this way today.
The first few years were not without
problems. There were some •milk
producers who got hurt when the
O.M.M.B. was being set up.
We moved from Wentworth County to
Huron County in 1965. so like many other
milk shippers, we were the victims of
circumstances. The quota was set on that
years production; like many others, we
were doing the wrong thing at the wrong
time. Some milk producers were doing
the right thing at the right time and did
come up with a good amount of quota. To
expand our dairy operation we were able
to buy quota and were very thankful to be
able to do so.
Most of the fluid milk shippers
previous to the O.M.M.B. paid plenty for
their quota one way or another.
We know that quota today is too
expensi'v, but it is the buyer that sets the
pnce.
It is easy for someone in a different
bus• +c ,s to say what should be done. The
other :1y a friend of mine from town was
at our farm Hc was looking at the cows
standing by the barn. 1 informed him that
they were the dry cows, and that the cows
that were milking were in the barn. My