Like every fish story, there is the one that got away — now these fishers are refusing to “bush” pickerel and want to sell it on the open market, which is offering a huge dollar these days.
Marketing Boards
Why Planned Integration of Land Use and Transport will Not Achieve its Goals.
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Let Dairy Farmers Sleep – We’ll Buy Somewhere Else
Canadians would all be better off if we closed down supply management and imported dairy products at world
prices.
Is Quota Helping to Kill the Family Farm?
As the entry price into the monopoly increases the number of dairy farms is collapsing. FC034
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Traditional Teaching is not Obsolete
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Reforming Milk the Australian Way
Australia’s dairy reforms introduced a temporary consumer tax on milk, the revenues from which, were used to partially buy out quota from affected dairy farmers.
Australia’s Dairy Reforms
An overview of Australia’s recent dairy reforms and the country’s phase out of marketing boards. A temporary consumer levy on milk is being applied to partially buy out quotas, the most difficult aspect of marketing board reform.
Let Them Drink Soda Pop
Canadians have fought a spirited campaign against poverty, but we’ve failed to brandish one obvious weapon: shedding a marketing board system that raises the price of food and makes basic nutrition more expensive for the poor.
Are Marketing Boards Yesterday’s Idea?
Governments have responded to the farm crisis with some infusions of short-term aid, but creating a freer and fair marketplace ought to be the long-term goal. As if a horse-kicking by foreign subsidies has not been painful enough, Canadian farmers are hemmed in at home by the rules that govern marketing boards.
Fish Story – The Federal Fish Marketing Corporation
The reasoning behind “single-desk” marketing has always seemed fishy, but the latest follies at the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation confirm that the enterprise has more to worry about than foul odors.
Saskatchewan Restructures Pork
Roy Romanow has abandoned the cherished ideal of a single-desk system when it comes to Saskatchewan Pork.
Consumers Lose Again
Although rebel farmers from BC have recently acted out against the outdated supply management experiment, their appeals were ruled against. Thus, we as consumers seem to be locked into higher prices.