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<blockquote data-quote="hillsdown" data-source="post: 647083" data-attributes="member: 5106"><p>We had a huge problem here a few years ago. When BSE hit us our dairy heifers went down A LITTLE in price. What was normally a $3000 heifer went to about $2000. Many US dairy farmers took advantage of this price and bought huge amounts of young heifers hoping that the border would not be closed for long..that did not happen and even when the border opened up again it was not to breeding stock..So the US guys thought they could buy quota and put up a milking barn and just milk the heifers here in Canada..WRONG quota is not that easy to acquire so the only option they had left was to sell these now springing heifers which flooded the market. You almost couldn't give away dairy cattle after that. A top quality deep pedigreed heifer out of a life time production award cow that should have sold for thousands were selling for around the thousand dollar mark or less..A lot of crappy heifers were bought for cheap that realistically should not have even been bred ,,all because they thought they could make a quick buck., It devastated our industry, prices went up a little the last couple of years but I doubt we will see the prices we did before. A lot of fancy milking operations ended up sitting empty ..Milk prices are still strong here hopefully they stay that way..but the price of replacements is not..and quota is absolutely ridiculous..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hillsdown, post: 647083, member: 5106"] We had a huge problem here a few years ago. When BSE hit us our dairy heifers went down A LITTLE in price. What was normally a $3000 heifer went to about $2000. Many US dairy farmers took advantage of this price and bought huge amounts of young heifers hoping that the border would not be closed for long..that did not happen and even when the border opened up again it was not to breeding stock..So the US guys thought they could buy quota and put up a milking barn and just milk the heifers here in Canada..WRONG quota is not that easy to acquire so the only option they had left was to sell these now springing heifers which flooded the market. You almost couldn't give away dairy cattle after that. A top quality deep pedigreed heifer out of a life time production award cow that should have sold for thousands were selling for around the thousand dollar mark or less..A lot of crappy heifers were bought for cheap that realistically should not have even been bred ,,all because they thought they could make a quick buck., It devastated our industry, prices went up a little the last couple of years but I doubt we will see the prices we did before. A lot of fancy milking operations ended up sitting empty ..Milk prices are still strong here hopefully they stay that way..but the price of replacements is not..and quota is absolutely ridiculous.. [/QUOTE]
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