In Saskatchewan, we have about 160 dairy farms, which produce about 750 thousand litres of dairy milk per day.

Melvin Foth is Chair of Sask Milk and runs a Dairy operation just North of Saskatoon.

He notes there's an overproduction of milk around the world because it’s unregulated leading to problems in the industry in other countries.

He believes it's important to have it regulated and manage supply so it doesn’t become too burdensome for a perishable product:

"Americans would like to put some of their surplus product and to have our dairy industry served by American, because they've got that much surplus right now when there's such a worldwide surplus," he said. "We appreciate our government support and we will continue to do what we do, and that's produce milk for the Canadian market."

Joy Smith is the Manager of Policy and Communications with Sask Milk and says prior to that we were purchasing quite a bit from the U.S;

"And so processors, who have the full choice of where to purchase their product from, are just increasingly choosing to purchase it from Canada," she said. "So that was frustrating for Mr. Trump and we think that's what he was communicating, but Canada exports very little dairy to the US, whereas we actually accept quite a bit of import from the US, so the trade balance is in the US's favour if about $450 million a year."

Canada imports 6% of our cheese and 10% of our butter and milk powder, while the U-S imports 3% of their cheese and butter and 8% of their milk powder market.