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Huron County is the top pork
county in Ontario, both in terms of
numbers of producers and pigs
produced.
Speaking at the annual meeting of
the Huron County Pork Producers’
Association in Seaforth, Jan. 21,
Teresa Van Raay, district 3 director
for Ontario Pork, revealed that Huron
had 445 producers who shipped
989,042 hogs in 2008. That topped
perennial rival Perth County which
had 419 producers and shipped
969,469 hogs.
In third place was Oxford County
with 258 producers and 712,1119
hogs shipped.
Across the province, sales for the
year were down 0.8 per cent in 2008
from 2007, with a total of 5,385,461
recorded by Ontario Pork. The
steepest decline was in the fourth
quarter when sales were down 10.7
per cent, a result of the decline in the
number of sows in Ontario due to the
cull program.
Ontario producers culled 10 per
cent of their sow herd but Quebec
producers, with more favourable
government support, culled just 2.83
per cent of their sows.
Average prices showed the third
year in a row with prices below the
cost of production, Van Raay said.
Ontario packers added more staff
and processed 86.1 per cent of
Ontario’s market hogs, she said, an
increase from 81.2 per cent last year
and just 78.6 per cent in 2005.
Exports to the U.S. declined because
of the new mandatory country of
original labeling regulations,
dropping more than two per cent
from 2007. Exports to Quebec
packers reached a new low, just 4.6
per cent of the Ontario production,
down from 7.4 per cent last year and
12 per cent in 2005.
Feeder pig exports to the U.S. were
at their lowest level since 2000, Van
Raay said. From January to October,
export numbers dropped 16.4 per
cent.
In the U.S., the number of all hogs
and pigs dropped 2.2 per cent from
2007 to 2008. Farrowing intentions
for the December 2008 to February
2008 period were down 3.3 per cent.
“U.S. producers are responding to
low prices and high feed costs by
reducing numbers,” she said.
Huron top pork
county
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producers to vote on the changes.
First of all, he said, he couldn’t recall
anyone at the July hearing asking for
a plebiscite, he said.
But producer John Vanderburgt
said the commission should have
brought up the plebiscite issue. “We
didn’t expect you to come up with a
decision that would change the
industry,” he told Buchanan. “You
shouldn’t have taken that action
without consulting all the producers.
Don’t say you can’t do it for one
group (the corn, wheat and soybean
growers when they amalgamated into
one organization) and not for another.
Buchanan wondered, if a plebiscite
were to be held who would get to
vote. Did the person who owned
three sows get to vote? Did the
person who buys a few weaners and
raises them, keeping some for his
freezer and selling others to
neighbours qualify?
He noted that 1,300 people are
listed as marketing fewer than 100
hogs a year. “Are they pork
producers? Do they make a living or
do they keep a few hogs? Is that
(letting these people vote) democracy
or not.”
“What if you have a lot of pigs and
you’re not making a living,” came a
shout from the audience.
Andy Ernewein, visiting from
Bruce County, said Buchanan’s
comments really upset him. While he
was not a producer now because of
other factors, he said he had
produced pigs for 20 years and never
shipped more than 800 pigs a year in
all that time. “In those 20 years I paid
for my farm.
“I don’t think you want to run a
vote,” he charged, “because it would
take longer than you’ve given Ontario
Pork to put this plan in place.”
Huron County producer Bill
Dowson reacted strongly to
Buchanan’s statement. “Our country
has been founded on one person, one
vote,” he said. “If we start with that
(deciding who is eligible to vote)
where does that take us?”
Producer Jack Kroes pointed out
that in the corn, wheat and soybean
producers’ plebiscite, all producers,
no matter how small, got a vote.
Another questioner wondered what
weight producers had in the
consideration of the commission
versus the concern with keeping the
processing hog industry alive in
Ontario. Buchanan answered that to
suggest there was any kind of
weighting involved in the
commission’s decision would be a
mistake. However, he noted, there’s
no sense in having a marketing board
if there is no processing industry to
market to.
Two different questioners
suggested to Buchanan that the
commission’s decision was taking
the pork industry back to the days
prior to the creation of the pork
marketing board in 1946. Then
buyers played producers off against
each other and producers couldn’t get
a clear idea of what pigs were really
worth. Buchanan said in no way was
the decision promoting that.
“This is not about going back, it’s
about going forward,” he said,
declaring that if it was about going
back he wouldn’t be a part of the
decision.
“At the end of the day we feel this
will be better for you and you will
have more money in your pocket,”
Buchanan said.
When one questioner wondered
what would happen if, five years
from now, it was found out the
commission made the wrong
decision, Buchanan said “If
something goes wrong, I would hope
someone will step up and make the
needed changes.”
Mention of plebiscite stirs hornet’s nest
Promotion award
Barb Storey and Don Dodds accept the Huron County Pork
Producers promotion award on behalf of the Huron County
4-H Swine Club. The club was rejuvenated this year with 10
members and held a community pork barbecue in Auburn.
(Keith Roulston photo)
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