Agriculture committee  Mr. Bellavance, the system we have today is good for dairy producers, for processors and consumers. However, prices have gone up to such and extent that the diary consumption in Canada has decreased. We think that if dairy producers became more efficient and were able to provide

Agriculture committee  That is a tricky question but don't worry, I will answer it. Our industry currently uses between 15 000 and 20 000 tons of quality non fat solids which are sold to the animal feed industry at $0.80 to $0.90 per kilogram. The products that we'll talking about, that come from abro

Agriculture committee  I think one of the solutions is for our dairy farmers, our dairy producers, to be more competitive. Let's not kid ourselves, in the last two years prices went up probably an average of 15% from the farm aspect, and then by the time the consumers were buying it at the retail level

Agriculture committee  Okay. I'll be brief. On my background, going back 45 years ago, I'm a cheese-maker. To tell you a little about the utilization of the MPI that Mr. Matte mentioned, when we use MPIs that we import—and there are possibly between 4,000 to 5,000 tonnes of MPI being imported—for us a