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Hi Luella,

Yes, I was trying top get hold of raw milk here in Ontario for years, myself living among the farms on a fair chunk of severance. No luck. But. I was thinking a bit on it.

OK, it is illegal to sell the raw milk, right?

There are a few ways, in which it can be obtained legally, at least till the lawmakers make their motion.

1) Lease a cow among a few people from the farmer and pay him back for "maintenance. Whatever the cow produces is yours without any purchase of milk. All written down on paper as a legal document.

2) Rent a cow from a farmer one day every two week or so, depending on how big a group of renters you can raise and the same as above applies.

3) Establish a co-op between a farmer and a group of people keen on raw milk with percentages of an ownership on a cow and split what comes out of the cow, leaving the manure on the farm as a payment for the use of the milking equipment, or something like that.

Where there is the will, there is a way.

Actually, it might be a fair business for small farmers within a driving distance from towns, cities and villages, to establish such co-ops. The cream of it is, that farmer could get lets say a dollar in lease or such per liter of milk instead of the meager 30 cents per liter of milk [at least that is I believe the going rate in Canada], while the lease's or co-op members would keep the 90% of cream in their milk, which dairies strip of the pasteurized milk to be sold as butter for additional 2.50 retail per liter of milk.

The math is rough, but you get the picture. It is a win win scenario for both, the farmer as well as the customer. I guess someone would have to figure out how to handle the quotas, but there is a good chance that you can produce as much milk as you want, only that you can't sell over the quota if you are a dairy farmer.

For all I care, it should be possible to lease only lets say 10% of a cow for a single person to get legally to the raw milk in a sensible quantity.

With kind regards, Slavek.

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