>
>Seriously Dick, I do not believe that if there were no imports of NZ
>product, that your prices would change.
I'm not Dick, but it is a fact that the US has been a dairy producing
deficit country since the 1980s. And it is the imports that put the market
into over-supply. And all it takes is a 1% over-supply to devalue the
entire market.
>If we did not allow dairy into US then should not that then be applied
>to all trade from country to country in all things, not just
>agriculture.
Here's where the free traders have it wrong. Product should be exported to
countries who can't produce it themselves, rather than the current system
distorted by currency exchange gaps, cheap oil (well it was in the teens
and now it is in the $50 plus range), greedy Kraft, Nestle, and Unilever.
And the US pays the price for that free flow of oil in terms of our
military budget and military lives lost, while most of the world's
countries are slackers, but they still profit from the free flow of oil.
There are countries who do not have the climate or infastructure to
logically produce dairy products. They should be the market for exports.
Obviously, NZ can't justify making their own cars because you don't have
the population numbers. So you should import.
>It is one of my bug bears with Fonterra getting into the organic
>industry, here in NZ.
>
>regards
>Ian Buckingham
>New Zealand
>
Beware of Fonterra. That co-op has long since forgotten that they should
exist to raise the price of milk that their co-op members receive. But
Fonterra isn't the only co-op to have this disconnect.
Dave G.
WisCOWsin
