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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1976-10-28, Page 13II an welcomes federal quot Agriculture and Food Minister William Newman said this Week he welcomes the response of the federal government to his request for an increase in industrial milk quota under thenational dairy plan. Mr. Newman spoke. per-. :sonally to federal Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan at a federal -provincial meeting in Winnipeg arid followed it up with a telex to the minister on September 20 specifically asking that dairy farmers be permitted to produce 400. million pounds of milk above the national. quota in the current dairy year. Cutbacks in milk quotasto correct a surplus situation ,have resulted in serious shortages in some areas of Canada. • Mr. Whelan announced earlier that the national` in- dustrial milk quota will be increased by 400 million poun-ds, the am aunt requested by Mr. Newman. "I welcome the decision of the federal government to increase the national in- dustrial . milk quota," Mr. Newman said. The Canadian • Dairy Commission. is meeting now with representatives of provincial governments and provincial milk marketing boards to discuss the allocation of additional quota. Mr. Newman said he hopes. •Mhe additional quotarwill be distributed: to the milk Marketing • boards ,of the provinces. , Mr. Newman asked for the increases in national quota when it begame apparent that the dairy industry was beginning to suffer growing - urieinployment and heavy financial losses. He said Ontario dairy,: farmers complied with. federalcutbacks by reducing their milk production about 15 per cent in the last six months. "The result of •these cutbacks has been that some processors who produce powdered. milk, butter and cheese . are considering closing their plants because. they can't get enough in- dustrial milk," Mr. Newman said. If milk production declines further, he said,. there is a danger that Ontario will not be able to produce enough cheese to satisfy domestic requirements,. which could result in increased cheese imports. '' "One thing we don't need is more cheese imports," Mr. Newman said. "In fact, we need . fewer imports. I've already asked the federal minister of agriculture to take steps to reduce the importation of cheese fro.m other co.untries." Mr. .Newman said that adding 400 million pounds of industrial milk to .the system will restore confidence in the dairy industry and alleviate some of the" hardships producers have been ex- ' periencing over the last few months... • , "It appears , now that the quota cutbacks at the beginning of the dairy year have been too severe and recent projectionswould indicate -that this .additional amount of industrial milk will be needed to meet domestic w- demands.'; Because of quota'icutbacks, many Ontario milk producers have suffered severe losses of income and have had to reduce their herd size. ,The cutback in dairy production announced earlier this year was a' result of overproduction last year when ' the country's 78,000 dairy produrcers.went 12 to 14 million cwt. over the 100 million cwt. quota. According to federal. Minister of Agriculture Eugene Whelan,' "Two fac- tors beyond , our ' control contributed greatly to the problem. Good-pas-ture conditions and good grain crops in 1975 pushed up dairy production; and world. markets' for dairy . products were depressed and we couldn't sell our surplus products outside Canada." • 'Mr. Whelan added • that "rnany industrial milk shippers found themselves short of quota (because of the restrictions) and have been hard' pressed in trying to - make ends meet." • • The big • surpluses have 'been in skim ` milk • powder, ' which is a byproduct of butter production, and in butter itself: There is an estimated 140 million pounds surplus of skim milk powder and about '80. million, pounds of surplus butter. • One of the thrusts �f this new program will be to find ways_ to reduce butter and skim milk powder stocks and to divert. . industrial milk production away from these two commodities into cheese and other' dairy...products where possible. Mr. 'Whelan said cheese consumption •and the con- sumption of specialty dairy products such as yogurt are up,.'and .this was. one of the reasons •for increasing the industrial milk quota slightly. -I- Producers who ship between 85 and 105 per cent of their 1074-75 quota -in 1975-76 and- whose 1976-77 quotas are below' their 1974-75 .allot- ments; • GODERI€I.1 SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCT(XBER 28,:197'6 ke:14404440q .724401. Jdlil,5ll)M 1)4 "AMVVeff TNAV" SERVICE 831 QUEEN, KINC. ONT.,,-CANADA FOR CLIENTS IN THE LLICKNOW,w'WINGHAIM . AND GODERICH AREA WATCH FOR OUR NEW ZENITH NUMBER COMING SOON: LET US HELP YOU WITH YOUR VACATION CALL (519) 396-3477. ▪ Robert Fairish of R.R. 3 Lucknow -can testify to the fact that somebody wins those contests that are operated from the back of cereal boxes. Mr. FIrrish. won himself this 1977 Dodge. Monaco in the Charger Sweepstakes sponsored by Kellogg's Corn Flakes. The lucky winner was ataSchutz + Producers who entered the .market last year ex- pecting they could retain or.,, increase their 1975-76 levels; `+ Cases of individual. producers that warrant special consideration. George McLaughlin, chairman of the Ontario Milk Pro'ducers' Marketing Board, said in a telephone interview from his home in Toronto that he regards .the move- "with• cautidus optimism." "There'll be. an emergency meeting of the supply management committee of the dairy commission • in -4Ottawa Friday, where I hope we can get a better handle on allocation of quota," he said. To make the move equitable • in terms of :distributing quota. to the • provinces, Mr. McLaughlin said the existing distribution formula must be adhered' to. "Because of the unusual circumstances this year, we don't think you can come up with any sort of equitable basis for transferring quota between provinces." Concerning the size of the increased total quota allocation , of four millign cwt., Mr. McLaughlin, said he hopes "it isn't too much for. the market to absorb." ', He said that if the distribution to the most needy_, producers benefits those -who didn't stay withintheir reduced. quotas, "there'll be a lot of angry producers who did hold the lines -" A Mr: McLaughlin saidhe'll be able to make a clearer assessment of the move once he has attended the Ottawa meeting Friday. EXTRA LEAN GROUND CHUCK - 50 LBS. FOR LB. 613c LB. .TENDER • CENTRE CUT • . SSTEAIRLOIN LB, $ , K • 69 E,AN' PORK CHOPS LE. FRESH SAUSAGE 10 LBS. HOMEMADE 69C ROAST BEEF Lle.6 FREEZER SPECIALS — FRONT-- A1S — O LY. 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