The Rural Voice, 2000-03, Page 557
PERTH ifIltk
County Pork Producers NEWSLETTER
Jim Van Herk, President
519-595-4863
• The Rural Voice is provided to Perth
County Pork Producers by the PCPPA.
PCPPA annual meeting highlights
Any opinions expressed herein may
not necessarily reflect the views of
the Perth County Pork Producers'
Association.
The Perth County Pork Producers
held their annual meeting on
Wednesday, January 26, 2000 at the
Elma Community Centre in Atwood.
The room was comfortably full of
fellow producers and industry related
partners.
Our guest speaker was Crystal
Mackay who is currently employed
with Ontario Pork in the
communications department. Crystal
compared the difference between city
life and country life by show'ng us
various slides and how we as rural
people might react compared to how
urban people view the same situation.
She stressed how important it is for
us as producers to educate urban
people by showing them how we do
things and why we do them that way.
One of the best ways to do this is by
working at the displays at the Royal
Winter Fair or the CNE, she
suggested. Crystal's final slide had
the phrase "Measure wealth not by
what you have, but by the things you
have for which you would not take
money."
Larry Skinner, who is one of,the
two representatives Perth County has
on the Ontario Pork Board gave us an
overview of the new protocols and
procedures for supply agreements
that Ontario Pork is trying to
implement. Supply Agreements is a
new term for contracts which have
been a much talked about subject
over the last year or two. Ontario
Pork hopes these new protocols will
redefine some of the rules and
regulations which hogs are sold by
here in Ontario. The end goal of
Ontario Pork is to have equal access
to supply agreements by all producers
both big and small.
Stu DeVries, forward contract
specialist with Ontario Pork
discussed details of the new feeder -
pig formula price program which was
designed to help pork producers
access a fair and equitable market for
buyers and sellers of feeder pigs. This
new program allows feeder pig
producers access to a forward pricing
program which they have not had in
the past. Anyone who is interested,in
the new program should contact Stu
at Ontario Pork.
There were five resolutions that
were passed and one resolution was
defeated. They are as follows:
1) The first resolution called for
Ontario Pork to make changes to the
current protocols of contracting to
give Ontario Pork more control and
to reaffirm Ontario Pork's mandate
that all hogs be sold through the
board. This resolution passed
unanimously and shows that there is
strong support for the new protocols
that were introduced that evening.
2) This resolution asks Ontario
Pork to implement a Standing Offer
Program which will allow producers
to seta target price and if the forward
contract price reaches that level then
the hogs specified are automatically
forward sold. Manitoba pork has a
program like this for their producers
and a Targe per cent of forward
contract hogs are sold under this
program. There was strong support
for this resolution.
3) The third resolution asks
Ontario Pork to make packers more
responsible for the hogs they have
signed up on contract during holiday
weeks: Some packers like to sign up
as many hogs as possible on contract
to guarantee supply but on holiday
weeks they don't want all the hogs
they signed contracts for. Ontario
Pork must then try to find another
packer to take these hogs on a short
week when everyone has the same
problem so usually these hogs sell for
less money. This resolution would
require packers who do not take all
their contract hogs, to reimburse to
producers the difference between
what Ontario Pork actually received
from the alternative market for these
hogs and what the packer would have
been required to pay under the terms
of their contract.
4) This resolution asks Ontario
Pork to break down the weekly
contract price so when we compare
prices from the weekly pool and the
weekly pool plus we can make a
better comparison. Currently the
weekly contract price includes floor
price contracts, window pontract
prices, platinum contracts, forward
sold contracts, and formula based
contracts. The resolution stipulates
that the weekly contract price should
only include the contracts with
formula based prices.
5) The last resolution that was
passed dealt with a way to deal with
people who do not abide by their
Nutrient Management Plan within
reason. If a person grossly violates
their Nutrient Management Plan then
they will not qualify for a building
permit for future expansion.
It's important to remember that
resolutions are not rules cast in stone
but a way of showing the Pork Board
in Toronto how the grass roots feel
on various ideas and concerns.0
- Submitted by John N►'enhuis
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