OP-ED: Why are we paying Canadian dairy farmers who are producing more?

"Yet despite rising production, rising quota values, rising equity, and rising borrowing capacity, Ottawa continues issuing billions in compensation."

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By Sylvain Charlebois

Every once in a while, someone inside a tightly protected system decides to say the quiet part out loud. That is what Joel Fox, a dairy farmer from the Trenton, Ontario area, did recently in the Ontario Farmer newspaper. In a candid open letter, Fox questioned why established dairy farmers like himself conti…