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18 THE RURAL VOICE
bought a plant that has been closed
for some time. It's going to take
some work to bring it up to modern
standards, he says, and his busy life
is getting in the way of finishing the
project, but he's hoping to get at it
this summer.
"We'd like to do it on our own,"
he says, but admits "there are a lot of
costs involved." He has looked at
other possibilities like co-ops but has
seen the trouble some of those have
gotten into. He's also considered
finding a partner but has found none
to date.
Back on the production side,
Campbell feels the problems the beef
industry has experienced with BSE
and the cost of quota in other
commodities will continue to attract
new participants to the industry.
But what, skeptics ask, is the
danger of flooding the market
if too many people jump on
the lamb bandwagon. Jones feels the
market will grow to keep up with
production. He notes that more lamb
and goat meat is eaten around the
world than beef.
"We're only half supplying the
market with domestic lamb. The U.S.
and Mexico are in the same position.
We need to look beyond the situation
today to When the live market opens
with the U.S. again."
As well, he notes that there was an
opportunity to sell 70,000 market
lambs to Saudi Arabia but Canada
wasn't in a position to fill the order.
Exports have been hurt by the
BSE -related border closure and the
strengthening Canadian dollar.
"Sheep should never have been
involved in the border closure in the
first place," he says. "And we're
going to be the last ones out of the
gate (for border reopening)."
Currently all the word from
Washington is that efforts are being
made to set up "Rule 2" protocols for
reopening the border to breeding
stock in cattle. Sheep will come later.
Still, the interest is there. Already
Jones is selling semen and embryos
for breeders outside of Canada.
Jones knows all about the
heartache brought on by the border
closure. Another part of his business
before the 2003 BSE crisis was
exporting dairy replacement heifers.
The sheep side of his business helped
pay the bills since, he says.0