The Rural Voice, 1989-11, Page 8FEED ANALYSIS
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6 THE RURAL VOICE
FEEDBACK
by quotas, the cost of which is not
added into the COP formula, and any
surplus is sold on the international
market, but it is the producer and not
the taxpayer who pays for the loss.
The Americans have started to curb
their overproduction by lowering the
producer support price and imple-
menting the dairy herd buy-out pro-
gram. With this program, the govern-
ment is paying producers not to pro-
duce milk. The cost of the dairy herd
buy-out program to the U.S. taxpayers
is estimated to be another $1 billion
annually.
The EEC has taken a different
approach to its surplus production
problems. In 1984 it introduced a
system of supply management fash-
ioned after our Canadian system. It
initiated quotas and cut production
quite significantly. Unlike the Amer-
ican system, which places the burden
of cutbacks on the shoulders of the
taxpayer, this system makes reduc-
tions the responsibility of the produc-
ers. Although political pressure has
not allowed the EEC to cut quotas
enough to eliminate surplus produc-
tion, it has taken a major step in the
right direction.
At the height of lunacy prior to
the implementation of supply manage-
ment, the EEC govemments were
paying farmers to produce milk that
wasn't needed. They paid to process
it into products for which there was
no market; they paid to store it for
extended periods of time until it was
no longer fit for human consumption;
and they then paid to take it out of
storage and dispose of it.
Which system is more defensible?
asks Adrian. Given the facts, the an-
swer to that question is crystal clear.0
Bruce Schmidt
R.R. 3, Walton
Plant Breeders' Rights
An open letter to the Minister of
Agriculture, Don Mazankowski:
The latest Angus Reid polls com-
missioned by Southam News reveal
that two in five Canadians say federal
and provincial ministers and govern-
ment bureaucrats have little or no
credibility on environmental issues.
Eight in 10 Canadian adults believe in
(cont'd)