The thing that bugs me about the Dairy farming industry is that they limit supply to increase the price. I have visited with hundreds of farmers here in NB over the years, the farmers who are doing the best financially are the Dairy farmers. They always have the nicest equipment, nicest homes, nicest trucks, etc. I have heard more than a few of them say that they throw milk away as they exceed their quota on the regular.
Now I'm not saying that Farmers shouldn't get paid well, or that we shouldn't protect our Canadian farmers, but there should be a happy medium. It's not an easy job by any means and is literally a 365 day per year job.
Meanwhile the beef cattle farmers haven't seen a price increase in their livestock since the 80's. They are on the other end of the spectrum, no regulation, the meat processors and grocery stores make all the profits while the farmers just scrap by. They are both cow farmers, there shouldn't be this big of a gap between them.
