Murray McCorquodale

75 cow dairy farm in the north end of Oxford County, Ontario. Milking in a Britespan barn with 2 GEA mono boxes and compost bedding.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Here is a question worth sitting with.

If grazing ruminant agriculture were a new technology, invented this year, announced at a tech conference, presented with a slick logo and a $200 million Series B, it would be hailed as a breakthrough.

A system that converts inedible plant matter into complete human nutrition. Builds soil while operating. Sequesters carbon. Maintains biodiversity. Requires no electricity. Self-replicates. Provides forty separate useful materials in addition to food. Operates on land that produces nothing else.

Investors would queue. The TED talks would write themselves. The branding would call it "distributed bio-fermentation, powered by photosynthesis."

Why does the same technology, having existed for ten thousand years, currently attract the opposite reaction? What changed? Was it the technology? Was it the marketing? Or was it something about us?

[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

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[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

@PierreLittle_ @brianlilley Check to see how much is demped on the US because there is no place for it to go

[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

@FoodProfessor Where did you obtain this figure in the magazine. I want to go after the board for this. Having trouble locating the figure exactly so I can confront them. Thanks

[The Grower @growernews]

Food Freedom Day is February 8 – that’s when the average Canadian household has earned enough income to cover the annual grocery bill. The Canadian Federation of Agriculture calculates that Canadians spent 10.8% of disposable income on food in 2025
https://t.co/LhHkGB0OBr

[Bernie Kamphof @BernieKamphof]

"This is not a handout" lol

[kevin kimball @kevinki16180099]

@gordo_10001 @shaunhaney Maybe check out what US gov't has paid dairy farms for being free mkt. https://t.co/Sc7QIThxqB

[Olly harrison 🥛🍔🌱AccidentalYoutuber @agricontract]

Farmers under valued in
life overvalued in death
Why do supermarkets drive down the real cost of food
They are not doing it to be nice to you they are doing it to get you in shop to make it back out of you on other products
But in doing so kill farm shops
@AldiUK

[Terry Daynard @TerryDaynard]

"The truth about the U.S. dairy industry." Globe and Mail editorial.
https://t.co/lhMXwiPgeX

[Mike von Massow @mikevonmassow]

Worth noting that the US has a version of supply management with TRQ's as high as 375% to protect US sugar producers. Production caps too. Its not exactly the same but it matters. Do as I say, not as I do Mr. Trump? Has nothing to do with the fact that Wisconsin is a swing state.

[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

@Korry @FoodProfessor @ryantcardwell Once qualified you have to belong to the governing body which is provincially regulated. And there guidelines to follow and if you don’t they will expel you. If an accountant did what that milk producer did, they would be probably thrown out immediately.

[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

@Korry @FoodProfessor @ryantcardwell That bureaucracy exists in the majority of our industries. You cannot be an accountant without the right qualifications and access to their guidelines. You cannot be a professor, again without the same. Where do think we should have the cutoff?

[Ron Versteeg @RVersteeg1]

WIENS: Defending Canadian dairy farms is worth taking a stand  https://t.co/efJ49ndzCL via @

[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

@FoodProfessor @CoryBMorgan You are hired to teach/research a certain subject. Would you be allowed to teach /research something else under your contract?

[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

@FoodProfessor @Denny2point0 How come your cartel University only allows so many students?

[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

@FoodProfessor If farmers dump milk because they are not within their quota, it is not the systems fault. There are guidelines to follow the same as in any job or business. If all dairy farmers exceed their quota there woul be no place to process it. Is that then the processors fault?

[Genetic Literacy Project @GeneticLiteracy]

RFK Jr. calls for a pivot to 'regenerative, no-till, and less chemically intensive' agriculture, even though it’s clear he has no clue what that means. Organic farming, which he touts, involves tilling while using genetic engineering, which he demonizes, does not. So his ‘agenda’ makes no scientific sense. He also ignores this truth: removing modern chemical inputs won’t make food healthier, just more expensive, and the environmental benefits are negligible at best. Plus, 'Organic foods cost at least 20% more' and aren’t safer or more nutritious. He’s drinking the Kool-Aid. @HHSGov’s MAHA agenda sells a fantasy—swapping precision ag and evidence-based tools for higher costs and lower yields. Science says pesticides, especially the demonized glyphosate, determined safe by every risk agency in the world, more than 15--reduce toxicity and emissions. Kennedy says ban it anyway. That’s ideology, not science. @EmilyJane_Bass #sciencenotideology #FoodSecurity #SciencePolicy #Glyphosate #MAHA #AgTech #RFKjr https://t.co/oNWytnQHqM

[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

@Milkabot @TerryDaynard @typical_farmer @mwkfarms It is winter triticale.

[Murray McCorquodale @casmurholsteins]

@Michael72172097 @WilliamShatner Same as every country including the US. Each one has a unique set of circumstances and this helps orderly trade amongst nations.