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Originally Posted by Azure
Except it isn't that easy for the families that have passed their business on from generation to generation.
I agree with you to a point, but I just don't like our quota system going the way the industry in the US has gone.
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The problem for dairy and egg...
They never purchased their quotas, the system was created and if you had a farm you were
given quota. Now those farmers are millionaires based on nothing more than a false market for their quota alone - not counting what they have profited from increased prices in a closed market.
Dont feel sorry for these "generational" farmers. They dont have it that bad.
Yes if the quota system is removed those farmers who have quote will lose the value of that quota, but if you didnt pay for something to begin with and now that value is 0 - should I really be asked to feels sorry for you ?
The only person I have a small ounce of sympathy is for those who have used that quota to expand their farms and if its removed will be stretched very thing. But again I dont feel to bad because the quota was never a real thing to being with.
I know of 3 families who have been directly impacted but this.