Cheesemakers like Alfredo Varalli are fighting a three-headed monster.
The first is the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, a marketing board that regulates the price of dairy products like milk, cheese and yogurt.
The second is the United States, which unlike Canada has no quota on dairy production, and where milk prices are determined by the open market.
The third is a high Canadian dollar, nearly two cents above parity.
But it wasn’t always a problem, said Varalli, president of Roman Cheese in Niagara Falls.
When the Canadian dollar was low, he remembers shipping truck loads of cheese to the U.S.
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