Pretty pathetic when you think about it, Dave. 'THEY' can get us to
slaughter our cows, but we're still too dumb to organize and fight back
together. Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gneisers" <bonniedave@dotnet.com>
To: <graze-l@witt.ac.nz>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Graze-l] Dairy farmers to slaughter cows
> > From Canadian Animal Net
> >
> >Dairy farmers to slaughter more cows
> >December 11, 2004
> >Associated Press
> >WASHINGTON -- The U.S. National Milk Producers Federation will,
> >according to this story, pay farmers to send nearly 52,000 cows to
> >slaughter over the next few months, removing 931 million pounds of
> >milk, or 0.55 percent, from the nation's supply, in an effort to keep
> >milk prices up.
>
> >
> >Vaughan Jones
> >Hamilton
> >New Zealand
>
>
> And this is being done because:
>
> >From Jan. thru Sept. 2004, the in-quota imports of butter into the US
> reached 5,758 metric tons (that's tariff - free) compared to 4,802 metric
> tons for the first three-quarters in 2003. The over-quota butter imports
> zoomed from 86 metric tons in 2003 to 8,130 metric tons in 2004.
>
> Hmmmm, 86 metric tons vs. 8,130 metric tons......I just repeat that so
the
> huge increase in tons is duly noted.
>
> Cheddar cheese imports in the in-quota (tarrif - free) category increased
> by 4% to 11,965 metric tons. The over-quota cheddar imports increased
from
> 222 to 564 metric tons.
>
> Among the commodities for which THERE ARE NO QUOTAS, imports of butter
> substitutes with less than 45% butter fat ballooned by 56% to a total of
> 13,633 metric tons. There was a slight increase of casein imports to
> 77,567 metric tons while chocolate block imports rose by 7% to 77,284
> metric tons.
>
> All of the above facts and figures represent activity during 3/4 of the
year.
>
> Dave Gneiser
> former dairyman, now beef grazer
> WisCOWsin.
>
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