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Canada could retaliate if the U.S. fails to comply with COOL ruling, but expert says picking a fight with your neighbour requires serious thought
It’s illegal under international trade rules and is estimated to have cost producers billions in lost sales, but Canada doesn’t have a lot of options for ending the pain caused by the American country-of-origin labelling (COOL) legislation. A recent report by the Canadian Pork Council estimates the sector has lost nearly $2 billion in revenueDealing with aggression, finding the best design, and retraining barn workers are some of the issues producers will have to deal with when they shift to open housing
If it’s time to update your hog barn or if you’re thinking about new equipment, then it’s also time to think about converting your sow gestation stalls to open-housing systems. “We’re working with the date of 2025, and we’re continuing to encourage producers to look at that date as well,” said Mark Fynn, animal careProducer George Matheson says they need $10 more a hog from processors otherwise only vertical integrators will survive
Manitoba’s independent hog farmers, including the Hutterite Brethren, won’t survive unless Canadian processors boost prices $10 a hog, says George Matheson, a Stonewall hog producer. “To be quite frank, I think the independent (hog) producer in this country is dying a slow death,” he told the Keystone Agricultural Producers’ General Council meeting Oct. 25. Matheson,
