The Rural Voice, 1999-09, Page 74LANCASTER SILAGE CRIMPER
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70 THE RURAL VOICE
News
Speakers say pork
industry needs a new
era of co-operation
The Ontario pork industry needs a
new era of co-operation and
communications, about 300 pork
producers attending a Mitchell
meeting on "Co-ordinating our Hog
Industry for survival" were told by
speaker after speaker, August 19.
Consumers have changed, the
market has changed, and the days
when all hogs were pooled and "a pig
is a pig is a pig" are over, speakers
from Don Collis, general manager of
fresh meats for Quality Packers to
Paul Knechtel, CEO of Ontario Pork
told producers.
Knechtel perhaps summed up the
meeting best when he said "we can't
say 'my pig is as good as yours' and
if we all pool them, somebody will
buy them".
The market today is complex,
Knechtel said. The processor, for
instance, has three different markets
whether for export, further
processing or the retail market, he
said. But the retailer also has three
kinds of customers: those with
enough money that quality is the only
thing that matters; a group with
money but no time which is looking
for foods with quick preparations
times, and lower income people for
whom price is essential.
"If there are a lot of different
kinds of customers, why do we have
a pooling mentality," Knechtel said.
"Producers have a pooling mentality
and the processor has a pooling
mentality."
Picking up on Collis's answer to a
question from Vince Hulshof that
only 60 per cent of hogs received by
Quality Packers met the company's
grading targets, Knechtel said
producers have a tremendous
opportunity to make the other 40 per
cent meet those targets. "While we're
trying to get you the best prices, you
have to make sure that 100 per cent
of your hogs are hitting the target on
the grid of your packer."
There are some things out of your
control, such as the hog situation in
the U.S., Knechtel said. "You can