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2 THE RURAL VOICE
Feedback
We must keep
co-op marketing
December 10, 1994
Many Huron County Pork
Producers are very unhappy with the
direction of the present marketing
system we have in Ontario. This sys-
tem has undergone several changes in
the last few years for a reason.
At the annual meeting in March of
1991 there were several resolutions
presented suggesting changes to the
marketing system. One of these
resolutions suggested direct contracts
between producers and packers. It
lost by a vote of 94 to 106. However,
the Board realized that producers
wanted some changes and its response
to this was to form a committee to do
a review of the selling system. The
main recommendations by this com-
mittee included contracts between
producers and packers and a suggest-
ion of a "B" pool of presorted hogs.
We all know that the "B" pool
fizzled out after only one attempt and
nothing was ever heard of it again.
Contracting, however, was begun in
March of 1992 with the assumption
that new niche markets would spring
up. The original policy called for a
10 per cent limit of a packer's regular
purchases, however at the annual
meeting in March of 1993 we found
out that there was no longer a limit on
the number of contract hogs. This
brings us to where we arc today with
contracts up to 40 per cent of the
weekly hogs and threatening to go
above 50 per cent, with 70 per cent to
80 per cent of them for time of deliv-
ery and very few of them having any-
thing to do with niche markets. This
is not the way it was supposed to be.
Yes, producers wanted changes to
the marketing system, but they did
not want to abandon co-operative
marketing. The idea that contracts
would solve all our problems was
wrong and it has created many more