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The provinces had to either find consensus or risk losing supply management
Canada’s once huge trade surplus in farm and food products has fallen into almost a deficit position
Canada suffers from “a commodity mentality” and needs to export more processed foods, says the chair of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute. The country is also missing the boat in servicing the fast-growing economies in Asia, Latin America and eastern Europe, says Ted Bilyea, a former executive vice-president of Maple Leaf Foods. “Currently, half ofGeorge Morris report says number of dairy farms has fallen by 90 per cent since the late 1960s and the cow herd has shrunk from 3.5 million to one million today
Canada’s dairy herd, as well as the number of farms and processors, has contracted at about the same pace as its counterparts in the U.S., Australia, and Europe, says a new report from the George Morris Centre. The main difference is that Canada hasn’t increased milk production as much as other countries have, and due
