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| | Local dairy farmers need to think globally |
 | | This presented a hardship to many quota holders who then had to trim their herds in order to produce within quota limits and, for some farmers in this four-county region, it spelled disaster, because they were producing exclusively for the export market. |
 | | They won their case at the tribunal, only to have the provincial agriculture minister of the day, Helen Johns, overturn the ruling after the DFO asked her to review the tribunal's decision. |
 | | According to Ag Canada's Dairy Import Report, in 2004, under the IREP program 2,983,484 kgs of cheese and 1,822,790 kgs of cream were imported, worth millions of dollars. |
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