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(Video screengrab from Conestoga Meats via YouTube)

Major Ontario pork packer expects to re-open Monday

Conestoga Meats went offline April 27

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News April 30, 2020

The hog slaughter and processing plant billed as Ontario’s second-biggest pork producer expects to be back in business Monday after a week-long COVID-19-related shutdown. Conestoga Meats, based at Breslau, just east of Kitchener, notified hog farmers and shippers on Friday that it would suspend “most operations” during the week of April 27 to May 1,

Hogs on a stock trailer bound for a Toronto packing plant accept drinks from Toronto Pig Save members in 2013. (Screengrab of Toronto Pig Save video via YouTube)

Hogs, Livestock

Farm groups weigh options after hog truck verdict

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 4, 2017

Officials with Ontario farm groups plan to “discuss next steps” following the dismissal of charges against an animal welfare activist who gave drinks to hogs aboard a livestock trailer. Justice David Harris of the Ontario Court of Justice on Thursday dismissed a charge of criminal mischief against Anita Krajnc of the self-described “grassroots, animal rights,

Hogs, Livestock

Ontario supports local pork branding program

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 6, 2014

The Ontario government has provided Ontario Pork with up to $2 million to encourage more consumers to eat and purchase Ontario pork. In a release, the government said this supports Ontario’s local food strategy helping to make more local food available in the province’s markets, schools, cafeterias, grocery stores and restaurants. It said that since 2003,

Hogs, Livestock, News

Death knell may sound for Canada’s GMO pigs

By Alex Binkley April 15, 2012

Without fresh funding, the animals will be euthanized  and their genetic material put into cold storage

Pigs that might have become the world’s first genetically modified animals approved for human consumption may instead face an untimely end, as key backers of Canada’s “Enviropig” project withdrew their support for the controversial engineered animal. Scientists at the University of Guelph, 90 km west of Toronto, bred the first GMO pig that was developed

Hogs, Livestock

West Hawk Lake Now Divides East And West

By Jim Romahn February 3, 2011

West Hawk Lake is up and running as a biosecurity dividing point between Eastern and Western Canada. It has taken 10 years to implement the project, formally known as the West Hawk Lake Zoning Initiative, said Curtis Littlejohn, a director of Ontario Pork and the Canadian Pork Council. The Manitoba community near the Ontario border

Hogs, News

Future Of Ontario Single Desk In Limbo

By Jim Romahn March 5, 2009

Ontario’s hog producers are hanging in limbo on when or whether the pork board will lose its single-desk marketing powers April 1. Things might get clearer after a pre-hearing conference by the Ontar io Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs tribunal March 9. One of the key issues is whether all of the changes at Ontario

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Tag Archives Ontario Pork

Major Ontario pork packer expects to re-open Monday

Farm groups weigh options after hog truck verdict

Ontario supports local pork branding program

Death knell may sound for Canada’s GMO pigs

West Hawk Lake Now Divides East And West

Future Of Ontario Single Desk In Limbo

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