The Dairy Farmers of Ontario just reported marketings of 2.5 billion litres of milk for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2005. The figure was released with the presentation of DFO’s Annual Report at its 40th Annual Meeting in Toronto on January 11 and represented a slight decrease from the previous year. Some other interesting facts include:
For this milk, DFO billed processors $1.67 billion. The organization retained $63.4 million for milk transportation, $11.0 million for administration of the marketing system, $29.3 million for market expansion and about $1 million to support research.