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[–] HardNut 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. I believe Newfoundland farmers have more freedoms in who they sell to and for what prices. BC and Ontario both sell their milk through a provincial dairy commission, and since the commission stopped taking in milk, and they can only sell through them, the milk had to be dumped. If they had fewer regulations in BC and Ontario that allowed them to market their product at lower prices to other sellers, they wouldn't have had to dump it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Newfoundland(And most of Canada) literally has 2 companies to sell to.

[–] HardNut 1 points 1 year ago

Then evidently having 2 to sell to rather than 1 governing board of commissions worked better, right?

Dairy and meat prices still are overpriced over there, so I'm not surprised there's only 2, but it also makes sense that something as absurd simply dumping excess can only happen when there's only one buyer who has 0 incentive to negotiate price