[Brent Swain]

I think the Mexicans have a much better way of selling eggs. Instead of selling them by size they sell them by the kilo.. You put them in the boxes yourself. A kilo of eggs is a kilo of eggs regardless of the size it takes to make up a kilo. <br /> Brent

[Rural]

Here is an example of a really mixed up situation, the egg producers marketing board dictates that only those farmers that have purchased “quota” can sell eggs, the inspection folk have said that only properly “inspected eggs can be sold, even back yard operations in theory cannot sell eggs off the farm. The “farmers” marketing board has in effect created a monopoly no different than some of the big corporations are doing with other foodstuffs, I don’t know if this is good or bad? The Lanark landowners are a very confrontational lot and are (in my view) doing more harm than good for rural landowners and farmers by just getting everyone’s back up.

[Dr Caleb]

[QUOTE BY= Rural]The “farmers” marketing board has in effect created a monopoly no different than some of the big corporations are doing with other foodstuffs, I don’t know if this is good or bad?[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> It's bad, IMHO. I've seen a few examples of this from Ontairo lately. Farmers markets and such requiring a 'minimum standard look and feel' to produce. How retarted is that? Some of the best stuff I buy is from the small farmer at a farmers market. I don't buy produce for the look, I buy it for the taste.<br /> <br /> Anything that interrrupts a free market is bad for business, and this just stinks of protecting big business. "Producing too many X" is the goal of business. It drives the price down.<br /> <br /> I used to buy eggs in a case, 16 dozen at a time from a local farmer. The double yolkers too. Cheap, like $20, and they were only inspected by the farmer. I might get a bad one every third case or so. So what? 1 bad out of 576 eggs. What did people do before eggs were 'inspected'? (you didn't crack them in a bowl together)