Manitoba’s pork producer group is floating a per animal levy increase for its members.
In a newsletter Jan. 21, the Manitoba Pork Council said it will hold a special meeting Feb. 12 in Portage la Prairie to discuss and vote on the jump.
WHY IT MATTERS: Manitoba’s pork sector will decide on whether to increase farmer levies next month.
The proposed increase would raise the hog levy by 10 cents, from 80 cents to 90 cents per hog. Weanling levies would go up two cents per animal, from 19 cents to 21.
“Manitoba currently has the lowest levy rates in Canada,” the newsletter reads. “The current rates have been in place since 2004, when they were reduced from the rates set in 1998 of $0.85 per hog and $0.20 per weanling.”
Registered farmers can choose a proxy to vote for them, Manitoba Pork says, but farmers who wish to do so must submit notice to them prior to Feb. 12. Those notices can be sent to the council by email.
