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4 THE RURAL VOICE
FEEDBACK
Pork industry
needs reason
I have read with great interest the
articles and letters concerning supply
management and I do indeed agree
with Mr. Vos that it is time for reason
in the pork industry.
Is it reasonable to expect producers
to accept a prediction that by 1991
there will be 2,500 producers in On-
tario, and not try something new to
save the industry for the greatest
number possible?
Is it reasonable to expect producers
to accept 65 to 70 cent hog prices
when their own board says the cost of
production is in the 80 to 85 cent
range, and not try a new method of
marketing?
Is it reasonable to suggest there are
too many pork producers when
history has shown that fewer pro-
ducers only means larger production
units and the same or more produc-
tion? In 1971, 30,000 producers sold
3,141,000 hogs in Ontario; in 1984,
14,000 producers sold 5,104,800 hogs
in Ontario.
Is it reasonable to suggest that the
government pay farmers to quit farm-
ing without guarantees that the pro-
duction of those producers who re-
main will not expand, therefore mak-
ing the whole program a waste of
money?
Is it reasonable to keep producing
hogs that are not required only to sell
them below the cost of production
just to get rid of them?
Is it reasonable to suggest that
farmers are losing money in the fields
when we all know hog prices are well
below the cost of raising them?
To me this line of reasoning pro-
motes a waste of natural and human
resources, and does nothing to solve
the problems in the pork industry to-
day.
However, it is reasonable to en-
courage pork producers to search for
a new marketing system for their pro-
duct, one which will work in a pro-
fitable manner.
It is reasonable to restrict our pro-