Daniel Gobeil is the president of the Quebec Milk Producers and the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean regional group.
The Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Dairy Cattle has also caught the attention of producers. It was revised last year, and its new version will come into force on April 1, 2024. Producers are requesting financial support from Quebec to comply.
[The code], it comes with legitimate demands to give more comfort to animals, to invest in terms of freedom of movement, in terms of farms with free stalls, but it also comes with investments significant due to rising construction costs and interest rates. We are asking for support, raises the regional president.
Daniel Gobeil also regrets the end of the Program to increase aid for consulting services in matters of animal welfare and energy efficiency, in March 2023.
It's a program that worked, which brought a lot of investments. For every dollar the government puts into agriculture, we get a six or seven times greater return.
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