I keep waiting for the dairy cartel to tighten the screws and begin to charge as much as its sugar-water competitors do. Even consumers in New Zealand, a dairy powerhouse with 4.7 million people and 6.5 million milk cows, pay quite a bit more for dairy products than Canadians. Milk production has dropped from about 12 billion litres annually to about nine billion litres today. The reality is that there is no free market beckoning enterprising Canadian farmers. The national cheese stockpile, designed to support prices by warehousing excess dairy production in non-perishable form, has grown to 635,000 tonnes.

Source: thestar September 16, 2018 09:56 UTC