The Rural Voice, 2001-03, Page 42Modular Flooring System
Several models available.
Strong, glass reinforced, interlocking V
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Suitable for farrowing, nursery, grower and
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Designed for installation & cleaning ease.
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The producers best choice for cleaner,
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back-up plan in place if disease
occurs. Review the results of your
changes every few weeks, months
and years.
Drug use in animals will decline,
he predicted, noting that many drug
companies are already getting out of
producing anima! feed additives.
"But some will stay in it as long as
it's legal and they can make money,"
he said.0
Perth Pork
Producers want more
money for marketing
Ontario Pork should be spending
more money on marketing,
resolutions passed at the January 24
annual meeting of the Perth County
Pork Producers' Association state.
Two of four resolutions at the
meeting dealt with marketing or
service fees. One resolution called
for an increase in the allocation of the
per hog service fee to five cents per
hog from four cents per hog "to help
facilitate better interaction between
Ontario Pork staff and our
customers."
"We're spending Tess than
$300,000 a year selling our product,
said Jim Van Nes of Stratford in
seconding the resolution. There needs
to be a system developed to give
more transparency to pricing, he said.
Another speaker urged Ontario
Pork to have a salesperson on the
road to develop more opportunities.
A second resolution called for a
service fee to be charged on weaner
pigs leaving Ontario for growing
elsewhere. The fee would help cover
the cost of services provided by
Ontario Pork such as research and
environmental advocacy.
"The idea is not just to get money
from these people," said Russell
Danbrook of Atwood. "It's a sense of
fairness. What we're looking at is
supplying services. We think it's
only fair that producers shipping
weaners out of the province should
share these costs."
But Co DeGroot of Sebringville
pointed out that weaner producers are
already paying a service fee to
private marketers to find buyers for
these pigs. Ontario Pork is not