National Family Farm Coalition members are urging U.S. trade negotiators to completely redo the North American Free Trade Agreement and not to push back on Canada’s dairy supply management system. The Coalition’s Interim Policy Director Quinton Robinson says the U.S. shouldn’t not lobby against Canada’s dairy system in NAFTA but instead incorporate part of it into U.S. dairy policy.

He says smaller U.S. dairy operators are being driven out of business by overproduction. Robinson also says NAFTA isn’t working and is hurting U.S. farmers and ranchers.

Robinson says NAFTA needs a complete overhaul.

The next two rounds of the NAFTA renegotiation are already on the schedule with meetings set in Mexico City September 1-5 and an undetermined location in Canada for September 23-27.