>
> Cut subsidies and there would not be surpluses
Without a price floor, you loose infastructure. Without a price floor,
marketing is just a spiral down to the bottom where nobody survives.
There are no surpluses anyhow. There are hungry people in the world. Heck
if you are so concerned at the plight of the poor Mexican farmer, donate
your surpluses to them.
>
> Anyway I don�t care if you guys subsidise yourselves silly. Subsidies
> breed
> inefficiencies. It is the DUMPING of your subsidised surpluses that kills
> other countries� producers.
The US is a dairy deficit country. We have no surpluses to dump. The milk
powder you see on the market was created when your MPC displaced that
domestic milk in the cheese vats.
>
> 1. Sea freight costs in the larger and larger and faster ships has hardly
> increased in 25 years and is about half as much as from LA to your east so
> are you going to start a campaign against land movement?
That will change. The price effects of continued $70 per barrel oil with
grind slowly until it wears a big hole in freight.
>
> 2. What New Zealand exports is at the producers� cost and the countries�
> buying prices and they don�t have to buy it, except that surveys I�ve done
> in shops showed that shop keepers liked to sell New Zealand products
> because
> the quality was consistently high with NO comebacks by customers.
Bull, there is no NZ cheese featured in our stores because you export
generic cheese, MPCs and other components.
>
> Please do a little research before shooting.
>
,
>
> Vaughan Jones
Oh I have done my research. You claimed it was the Aussies that were
killing the US milk price. Well the Aussies are dealing with another
severe drought so there will be little export from them on the market.
Most of their exported dairy and beef are not US bound. And fortunately
most of their beef is headed to Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Egypt and
Indonesia. The Aussies last filled their TRQ of 378,214 metric tons in 2000
and have not met their permitted quota since. Apparently the Aussies are
more business savvy than the Kiwis, focusing upon markets closer to home,
lower shipping costs. Approx. two-thirds of Aussie beef production is
exported. From 2003-04, the export prices of Aussie grass fed carcasses
increased 20% and their grain finished carcasses increased 24%.
Now you wonder why grass-fed and rotational grazing has a hard time getting
established here in USA? Well, US grazers are up against Uruguay
(approximately the size of Oklahoma but 87% of the nation is cattle farms.)
US imports of fresh and frozen Uruguay beef have a 20,000 mt TRQ. Of this,
80% is lean trimmings (translation, blended with US meat to make
hamburger.) Despite a 26.4% over-quota tariff, imports in 2005 increased
55.4% over 2004.
Last year, Uruguayan beef importers paid the US Treasury nearly $100 million
in over-quota tariffs. (Read those last two sentences again
Vaughan............yup, they gladly paid tariffs for access to US markets.
Meanwhile you Kiwis whine, whine, whine. Uruguayans paid the beef
checkoff fee, too, unlike Kiwi dairymen who have to be subsidized their 15
cents per hwt. by US dairymen.
Dave G.
