When production is high on the Canadian market, the Commission buys butter and milk powder stocks and stores them, with a view to putting them back on the market during periods of low production or, if there are surpluses in relation to domestic requirements, to exporting these butter or milk powder stocks, particularly milk powder, to outside markets.

Central Quebec is also known for its production of sheep's milk, industrial goat's milk, eggs, dairy cattle, and pork.

In particular, there is a need to build up further stocks as soon as possible to make the market more secure; increase the milk price paid to producers to encourage them to continue and increase production and help them cope with the rise in animal feed prices; provide more support for marketing and distribution channels; increase European milk production quotas as quickly as possible; and evaluate the CMO for milk in the 2008 review of the CAP, in the light of the current shortage and before any consideration is given to abolishi ...[+++]ng milk quotas in 2015.

HEALTH RULES FOR THE PRODUCTION AND PLACING ON THE MARKET OF RAW MILK, HEAT-TREATED AND MILK-BASED PRODUCTS On the basis of a compromise, the Council adopted the Directive making technical adjustments to the Annexes to Directive 92/46/EEC laying down the health rules for the production and placing on the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and milk-based products.

Comments related to: the need to define a variety of heat treatments equivalent to the one proposed; the requirement for a test in addition to record-keeping to determine whether a given cheese was manufactured from heat-treated milk; the need to permit technologies other than pasteurization and heat treatment; the disruption of the imported raw milk cheese trade if the proposal were to be implemented; serious financial loss if the inventory of raw milk cheeses presently being aged would have to be destroyed; loss of flavour of hard cheeses due to pasteurization and heat treatment of milk; heat treatment or pasteurization is not necessary if good hygienic production practices ...[+++] are followed on the farm for raw milk; the financial burden of purchasing, installing and operating pasteurizers.

There are some other states that are also interested in forming compacts, but obviously in those states where there has been rapid growth in milk production—and as you know, there has been a tendency for milk production in the United States to migrate west and south, particularly into desert states like Arizona and into parts of California and New Mexico, and so on—they see the introduction of regional compacts as a distortion of their internal market, though of course it is substantially distorted already, as far as fluid milk is concerned, by the existence of 31 federal marketing orders.