More than six billion litres of milk has been discarded on Canadian dairy farms since 2012, according to a newly released study.
“Systemic inefficiencies” in Canada’s supply management system have led to between 6.8 billion and 10 billion litres of milk being dumped out over the past 12 years, says the study published in the journal Ecological Economics. Valued at as much as $14.9 billion, the dumped milk accounts for roughly 7 percent of milk produced on dairy farms during that time period.
The report, which was co-authored by Dalhousie University Agri-Food Analytics Lab scientific director Sylvain Charlebois, said the wasted product was a “nutritional and economic loss” that could have provided enough milk each year to supply 11 percent of the Canadian population….