U.S. dairy industry better off adopting Canada’s supply management system

It would help to regulate boom and bust cycles and give farmers stability and a reliable paycheque.

Canada used to have an oversupply of dairy but learned that regulating the industry was the best solution, argue Anita and Oliver Mark.Photograph courtesy of Wilson Hui

Opinion

BY ANITA MARK, OLIVER MARK

April 26, 2017

SAANICHTON, B.C.—It is because the United States dairy industry does not have a supply management system like Canada’s excellent one that their dairy farmers suffer at the mercy of their unregulated system and regularly go through boom and bust cycles. Canada is one of the few countries in t...

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