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Cream producers try to restart market
Ontario’s 90 or so cream producers
are trying to get back into the market after they were shut out December
8. In a meeting chaired by Rod Stork, chairman of the Ontario Farm
Products Marketing Commission, cream producers have presented to
stakeholders a seven-point plan for restarting. The cream producers blame Dairy
Farmers of Ontario (DFO) for devastating their farms and families and are
proposing a program to market cream domestically along with developing a
non-quota export market. John Karn, secretary of DFO, said
cream marketing was discontinued "When the two processors in the
province decided they did not want to process farm separated cream,
because it was not the best of quality. "They (cream shippers) no
longer had a market," he said. The two creameries are at Alliston
and Stirling. Most of the shippers are Amish and
have no hydro on their farms, Karn said, adding that the standards are
higher on milk producing farms. In an interview with Farmers Forum, Bill
Denby representing the cream producers, said cream producers want to
separate from DFO and set up their own marketing board. Karn believes the
current situation can be worked out, but will take several months.