Ok, so I first heard this story on the CBC 6 o’clock news and I know its all over the web, but I just got share.. I have gold mine in my freezer.. we need to be one of the countries that is sending in tons of butter to norway..  The story said they had lifted all milk qouta’s on the norway dairy’s to increase in country production..

It made me really chuckle because i so often here from folks that always say, food shortages, don’t be silly, maybe we might not have something from around the world, but  we will always have bread, butter and meat…So what do you think.. could we run out of butter in canada??

“Norway ran out of butter this month. There’s none in the stores. People are selling it for inflated prices online. A guy just got caught trying to smuggle 200 pounds across the border from Sweden. People are panicking about the holiday baking season.

Explanations have been advanced. A high-fat diet craze jacked up demand in the country. A rainy summer led to poor grazing conditions for cows, which in turn led to lower milk and butter production. But at its core, this is a story about trade.

Norway is one of the richest countries in the world. Why not just import butter?

It turns out, the country has prohibitively high tariffs on imported butter — 26 kroner per kilo, or roughly $2 per pound, according to Lars Galtung, a spokesman for Tine, the country’s biggest dairy producer. (Norway isn’t a member of the EU.)

In an emergency move, the country’s agriculture ministry just temporarily cut the tariff way down. Tine is planing to import 150 tons of butter, and other companies are importing hundreds more tons, Galtung told me.

But getting hold of all that butter is likely to take a while. Galtung said the shortage is expected to run into the new year.”