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Of course there are firearms in New Zealand but they don't screw around. After the Christchurch mosque massacre it took six weeks for all parties to agree to an assault weapons ban and buyback. Police are trained and have access to firearms like the UK but your every day patrol officers don't carry them. It's a civilized country. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-where-police-do-not-carry-guns.html

Shows how little you know about me. Been to NZ several times. Beautiful country, clean, friendly people and the cops still don't carry guns. Civilized.

If I moved anywhere but Canada it would be New Zealand.

Typical Canadian or northern US dairy farm. Southern California mega dairy farm.

4.5 million is peanuts, I'm surprised it is so low. 4.5 million would hardly buy you 40 acres of farmland in the Fraser valley, nowhere near enough to operate a profitable dairy farm. Then you have the cost of barns, silo's and other outbulidings, milking parlour, tractors, planters, harvesters, spreaders, irrigation system and all the other machinery required to operate it. And then you need cows and quota on top of that. Other countries subsidize the crap out of their agriculture, Canada does not. I already posted a link to US subsidies in 2021, in the same year the EU subsidized agriculture to the tune of 54.4 billion Euros (79B CAD) We see what happens in places like France when government tries to take away any of their entitlements. Meat and dairy are New Zealand's largest export and by far their biggest customer for dairy is China. China is also the largest market by far for Australia's dairy exports with Japan second. The leading producer and exporter of dairy (over 80%) from New Zealand is a co-op of over 10,000 farmers called Fonterra, if you wan to go on about cartels.

Bullshit, dairy farms are barely surviving and many aren't. It is the toughest job in farming and one the most expensive. Cows don't take days off and neither can dairy farmers unless they have help they can trust. Canadians always want something for nothing and will sell there souls and sovereignty to get it. It’s no surprise our military is in such sad shape.

It's Russians killing Ukrainians on Ukrainian soil. No one in Russia has been attacked.

A lot of farmers have issues with the quota system, it sure isn't perfect but what's the alternative. Say this guy and every other farmer dumps 30K more litres a month into the market, there isn't going to be an increase in consumption to justify it, the bottom will fall out of the price and the milk will get dumped anyway. Covid hit dairy farmers hard because one of their largest markets is restaurants which were all closed for the better part of a year resulting in an over supply even with quotas. They had to cut back production which resulted in less income even with a supported price. It would have been much worse in and un regulated market. How do you know you are paying inflated prices? https://www.thebullvine.com/news/could-supply-management-help-struggling-us-dairy-farmers/ '

If this guy is producing 30K litres over his quota, that's no ones fault but his own. Either get more quota or don't over expand and expect the system to change just for him. $7 a litre is also bullshit. Did you read my link? In the US Is this where you want your taxes going or should we be paying the actual cost of what we consume?

No it doesn't, good farmers will make more. If they are getting 90 cents a litre for their milk, the farmer that can produce at 70 cents will make twice as much as the one who's cost is 80 cents and the one who's cost is $1 will go broke. Milk boards guarantee a price, not profitability. You either pay the real cost of a commodity or you subsidize the crap out of it with your taxes whether you use it or not. Your choice.

If the US has known about it for some time, so has Canada. There is a thing called NORAD.

Except animals are not machines, you can't just shut them down, throw a tarp over them and then fire them back up in 6 months. They will eat the farmer out of house and home so he will have to get rid of them. You talk about free markets but US farm subsidies amounted to 37.2 billion USD in 2021. Supply management was intended to remove those boom bust cycles and have the consumer pay the actual cost of the product not a subsidized cost. https://www.taxpayer.net/agriculture/usda-farm-subsidies-at-highest-level-in-20-years/

Surplus will be wasted anyway. Milk has a shelf life and if there is no market, it will dumped. Surpluses will also depress prices and make things even more difficult for farmers. I don't know what an ideal solution is but supply management was initiated in order to prevent boom bust cycles and waste. The idea is also to have the consumer pay the true cost of the product, not a subsidized cost. in 2020 US farm subsidies hit 37 billion USD. https://www.taxpayer.net/agriculture/usda-farm-subsidies-at-highest-level-in-20-years/

It is thought the purpose of the balloon isn't to take pictures but electronic surveillance, including cell phone traffic. On edit. Looking at the current jet stream, in a few days it could wind up over Germany, Poland and eastern Europe.

A dairy farm isn't a factory, cows aren't machines you can just turn on and off as the need arises. You buy quota but you don't have enough cows to produce the milk, what good is it? Meanwhile you are spending a lot of money taking care of animals that aren't producing anything. It takes time to build a herd. You buy cows on the hope of getting more quota you have to do something with the milk until you get it. It's a chicken or egg situation for farmers.

Over production will get dumped whether there is regulation or not. Giving away part of our market to subsidized American farmers hasn't helped either.

Japan sent fire balloons across during WW2. The jet stream is perfect for sending stuff from Asia to North America. A good forecast could give a good indication of its probable route before you even launched it.

We'll see.

Then you will have to reimburse farmers for what they paid for their quota, otherwise you will have farmers carrying huge debt for quota they bought in good faith so they could do business having to compete with people who have paid and owe nothing.

Because the amount of quota is restricted, you just can't go out and buy more you have to find some that is for sale and because it is limited, it is expensive. Farmers have millions invested in quota and it can be a large part of the debt load they are carrying. I don't know who is paying $7 a litre. Even with the 8.1% increase farmers just got the price of a 4 litre jug of milk is still less than $6 in most places although the Maritimes seems a bit higher.

We probably don’t have anything that could get high enough to shoot it down.

Did you bother to read the article? The thing is the size of three busses. The military doesn't want to shoot it down because it might injure someone on the ground. It came from Canadian airspace.

They don't pay for quota every year, once they buy it, they own it. Some even lease it out to other farmers. It's a commodity on its own. Quota only means they get a guaranteed price for the milk the have quota to produce. If they can't produce at that price, they go broke.

Shell is Anglo Dutch.

So why didn't a jury find him not guilty?