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20 THE RURAL VOICE
That growth has seen a rare
phenomenon in the usually -shrinking
world of Ontario farm numbers. In
1965 there were about 800 chicken
farmers in Ontario producing 60
million kg. of meat. In 2004 there
were 1091 chicken farmers growing
319 million kg. of chicken (a 5.5 per
cent increase over 2003). Graphs
provided by Chicken Farmers of
Ontario (CFO) show almost constant
growth over the years in chicken
production and a near -straight-line
number of chicken producers,
meaning farmers in this sector don't
need to get bigger by buying out their
neighbours.
That said, the number of chicken
farmers has dropped from
1,150 in 1999-2004, according
to the CFO annual report. The
number of quota transfers without
premises is considerably larger than
the number of transfers that also
include the property.
Still, it's a tribute to supply
management, says Nick Whyte, that
the chicken industry in Canada is still
a family farm operation.
According to CFO figures, 30.8
per cent of the total number of
chicken producers have 10,000-
20.000 units while 32.8 per cent have
20,001 to 30,000 units. By
comparison, only 11.2 per cent have
more than 50,000 units.
In the same 40 years that supply
management has been in effect in
Canada, the U.S. has taken a totally
different path with three or four large
companies like Tyson Foods owning
most of the chickens, the hatcheries,
the feed mills and the processing
plants.
"Farmers aren't really farmers,"
Whyte says of U.S. producers. "They
simply do what Tysons says. They're
totally integrated and controlled."
The Ontario industry, once
heavily centralized in the Niagara
area, has seen a large scale shift in
recent years. It had been expected
that the six counties of Huron, Perth,
Wellington, Waterloo, Oxford and
Middlesex would produce more than
50 per cent of all the chicken in the
province last year, but final figures
for the year showed growth in
Oxford, Middlesex and Wellington
was offset by declines in Huron,
Perth and Waterloo. Still, Huron
County remains largeenough