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4 THE RURAL VOICE
FEEDBACK
The Ontario Butterfat
Marketing Board?
I am a very concerned milk producer.
I am troubled about the OMMB decision
to pay producers totally on butterfat for
the 1990-91 dairy year.
As I understand it, you multiply your
1988-89 milk quota by your average per
cent butterfat to get the number of kgs of
new quota. So long as your production
and your per cern butterfat stays the same,
you are allowed to produce the same
amount of milk as you did before.
This is fine, but are we going to
receive the same for this production? I
can't see how this can be possible. I will
use this example to state my point:
Farmer A produced 200,000 liters of
5 per cent milk.
Farmer B produced 285,714 liters of
3.5 per cent milk.
If the base price is 43 cents a liter for
MSQ shipments at 3.6 per cern butterfat,
then Farmer A will receive about 52.1
cents per liter, and Farmer B will receive
about 42.35 cents per liter. Therefore
Farmer A's yearly gross income is
$104,200 and Farmer B's gross income
is $121,000. Farmer B grossed $16,800
more per year.
But as I understand it, in 1990-91 both
these farmers will have a 10,000 kg butter-
fat quota, and if solely paid on this their
gross incomes will be the same, exactly!
So I would like to know what is going
to be paid for our product, butterfat. The
way I see it, Farmer A was receiving
$10.42 a kg and Farmer B was receiving
$12.10 a kg. What is the OMMB going
to pay now for this butterfat?
If the base price is going to be around
$10.40 to $10.50/kg, then Farmer B is
going to be very upset with a 13.8 per cent
cut in his milk this fall. Or is the price
going to be closer to the $12 to $12.10
range? Then I am sure that Farmer A will
enjoy the 16 per cent raise he will receive
for his milk, while I am not so sure Farmer
B will be as content, because he did not get
any raise.
As a relatively new milk producer, I
would like to know what the price is going
to be for this butterfat. The board was
good enough to tell us about this change
which is to be for the better, but it did not
tell what the new price was to be.
Should I subsidize my Holstein herd
with an off -farm job to have the same
income as I did before this change, or
should I take advantage of the next three
to four months to purchase a coloured