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Michael Dykes

Michael Dykes

Sep 13, 2026

1:15
He hopes cooler heads prevail in that trade spat and that USMCA is renewed.
1:22
Canada and Mexico together take about 40% of our exports.
1:26
Canada's our number two market.
1:28
We have said all along, and I was with Lighthizer when he was negotiating the USMCA.
1:34
I thought he did a fabulous job.
1:35
And I've always said, listen, Canada has a supply management system, but they should manage their supply inside Canada.
1:42
Manage the whole thing, not just the consumer consumption part of it, but the whole thing.

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12:51
What's their message to legislature?
26:00
Those changes affect what you can do and how much market penetration you can have, and that's a key one with schools that you were kind of blocked out of for a long time.
26:14
It's absolutely true.
26:16
People just don't realize how highly regulated some areas of these things are.
26:22
The school nutrition programs are very, very regulated.
26:25
Uh, even the amount of sugar added sugar you can have in flavored milk in schools, which is, uh, probably, uh, uh, three quarters of the milk consumed in schools by students is the, is the flavored milk, chocolate milk.
26:38
Uh, our industry there again, uh, my, our industry has just done tremendous work.
26:44
We work with our members, IDFA members who supply the schools with milk.
29:23
As I reflect

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