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circumstances."
The main competition comes not
from other independent breeders but
from multinational breeders like PIC
International, he says. "I think we
can be competitive with these
companies."
Procter admits he has been
approached in the past by
international breeding companies (no
longer in existence) with offers to
buy the operation. There are
advantages to being associated with
larger companies but there are also
problems. Shareholders can decide
the company should change
direction, for instance.
In many ways, pork seems to be
following the trend of poultry, he
says, but pigs can't follow the
poultry example completely.
For independent, non-aligned
producers the question in the
future may be if you have a
market for your pigs, he says.
Bodmin is an investor in Progressive
Pork Producers' Conestoga Meat
Packers Ltd. to assure a market for
their market hogs.
Today Bodmin has 2600 sows in
in three barns and contracts with
other producers for nurseries and
finishing. They sell gilts from early
wean to mature, terminal sires and
sernenn for terminal breeding.
Though the Bodmin Limited,
which also has a cattle breeding
operation and crops a Targe acreage,
is 50 years old, the Procter family has
been farming in this neighbourhood
since the brothers' great grandfather
and his brother arrived from
Yorkshire, England in 1851.
George Procter chuckles in
describing how his own father
illustrates how farming has changed
over the years. His father only owned
87 acres of land but he made it
through the Great Depression and
raised five kids, all of whom went on
to get an education. Two sons went
to Ontario Agricultural College, one
son went into the air force then
trained at Ryerson before working in
the nuclear industry, one daughter
became a nurse and one became a
teacher.
Today another generation of
Procters has joined the swine end of
the operation with George and
Elizabeth's daughter Kate KI;,ges
coming on board, helping out in both
the barns and the office.°