A slight drop in the demand for organic milk by transformers for the year 2023-2024 could be compensated by the deployment of sales, in the United States, of organic and antibiotic certified dairy products (NOP), as well as by dairy products Biological from cows fed with grass. This is what the various parties concerned suggested during the 24thAnd Annual General Assembly of the Union of Biological Milk Manufacturers in Quebec (SPLBQ), 23 January, in Quebec.
The possibilities of exporting these Nop products to the United States must be taken into consideration, said the president and the managing director of the cheese milk ring ring, Pascal Déilets, on the microphone. The latter already sells dairy products -casear elaborate nop certified to the Americans.
If all manufacturers were Nop, we would miss organic milk in Quebec; It’s not bad. There is a real question and it could be useful for the entire sector.
Pascal Delets, president and CEO of The Ancestor Cheese Dairy
In interview with The earthThe transformer specifies that the weakness of the Canadian dollar, the persistent demand for dairy products -organic casearies in the United States and the increase in the prices of Lattiero -American -Caseari products represent a favorable moment to export there. The only challenge before really developing this market remains the cost of milk in Quebec, which is less competitive than that of the Americans, observes.
Several transformers, one of which is located in Ontario, recently expressed a marked interest in Nop organic milk, said the president of Sprbq, Michèle Lacette. “I think we are able to do it. There are producers who are interested. But it remains a lot of things to attack, how to rethink racing transport (to collect NOP producers). Will it be practicable? She questioned.
The cows fed with grass: let’s go!
The project aimed to increase the demand for organic milk by the milk certified by cows powered with grass takes off. The first cheeses designed with this milk were offered to consumers at the end of 2024 One of these, Pascal Pelletier, of the Poctois Farm, came to testify his first year of experience in the context of this direction in the annual manufacturers’ assembly.
“He did not ask for great changes, because we were already working a lot on quality and conservation (forage) in order to reduce concentrates to the maximum. For me, it is the nerve of the war in the staff, because the concentrate cannot be purchased! In short, he has already combined our goal of making forage milk as much as possible “, subsequently entrusted Mr. Pelletier a The earth. Its cows fed with grass produce less milk on average than the farms that are based on more efficient agencies, but its lower energy costs allow to end the year with higher profits than most farms, underlining To the provincial analysis in organic lactiero -Casearia production, where his company has increased in the leading group for its residual balance, that is to say its profits. On the other hand, it expects that a year of drought during which the forage will present a lower nutritional quality can reduce herd productivity.
The five producers receive nothing more for their certified milk of cows fed with grass. “The question is: if there is a market, we want to fill it or remain as we are and (we continue to see the demand for organic milk)? I think it was an opportunity that dragged on the ground that it was necessary to collect. Even if for the moment We no longer have Premium, increasing the use of organic milk will increase our organic prize, “says Mr. Pelletier.
In order to increase the reputation of the product, the milk has been certified according to the national standard developed by the milk producers in Canada for the production of milk exclusively by cows powered with herbs. The Untité Cheese Dairy is the only buyer of this milk certified in Quebec.
Pascal Deletes sees a lot of future. “What we see is that 20 % of organic products consumers want to go beyond organic. And lead to another 20 % of consumers. The “nourished grass” responds to this. In addition, the price is often the main brake of consumers to buy organic and with “nourished grass”, we do not increase the price of the product, but we offer more value to the customer “, describes the one who, at the time of the interview, was traveling for British Columbia to promote its cheeses.