Canada's dairy industry remains safe. Trump and US dairy farmers want to force Canada to accept more of their dairy products. Why should Canada accept dairy products from an industry that can't control bird flu? #tariffs - ThreadSky

bill-comeau.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Canada's dairy industry remains safe. Trump and US dairy farmers want to force Canada to accept more of their dairy products. Why should Canada accept dairy products from an industry that can't control bird flu?
#tariffs

Reposted from Helen Branswell

#USDA confirmed 2 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in Idaho.
Cumulative national total: 985 herds across 17 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

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happyfamjam.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The Canadian Dairy industry isn’t as safe as it should be.
“the U.S. enjoys a significant dairy trade surplus with 🇨🇦, exporting $877.5 million CAD in dairy products while importing $357.9M CAD in return. reducing their market share and weakening the stability of 🇨🇦’s domestic dairy sector.”

defeline.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wise words!!

yyjphysics.bsky.social•2 days ago

Maybe if they hadn't ended WIC and USAID nutritional programs, both of which soaked up a tonne of US milk, they wouldn't be so desperate to sell the overflow to us.

mas30.bsky.social•2 days ago

That and the hormones they use to enhance milk production

aptlyasked.bsky.social•2 days ago

The US doesn't even fill the Canadian quotas they have.
It's all duty free now.
Canada isn't buying what they're selling.

johnhansenca.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm not a big fan of how the Canadian dairy industry works. I'm all for supply management. Sadly the dairy quotes have been managed by literally creating a separate currency(priced at $25,000-$40k per cow) that greatly impacts Canadian dairy costs and retail price. It needs to be unwound.

johnhansenca.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here's an idea. Why don't we just give the US a large tariif free quota. Oh, wait NAFTA/USMCA, signed by Trump, already supports a large tarrif free quota. One so large the US has never exceeded it. In fact US-Canadian dairy trade is 3-1 in favour of the US.

michel24.bsky.social•2 days ago

The products will be boycotted anyway.

pruttan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Why would we accept any livestock derived products from the U.S., they feed livestock "poultry litter", which as the name suggests is the excrement, feed, feathers, etc. scraped of the floor of factory poultry farms. Besides being disgusting, it is an excellent way to transmit diseases like bird flu

tlgibson.bsky.social•2 days ago

And the issue is moot right now anyway; Canadians won’t buy American dairy.
I don’t think the U.S. understands that, aside from the tariff issue, how much they’ve damaged their trade on a long-term (even permanent) basis.

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