Members of a government-industry task force have presented their interim report on the financial crisis facing Canada’s pork industry and possible strategies to the federal minister of agriculture.
The chair of Manitoba Pork Council says it’s important that any government involvement in helping pork producers contend with the current downturn in profitability due to high feed costs and low hog prices is non-countervailable.
Keystone Agricultural Producers is calling for immediate intervention by the federal and provincial governments to address the worst crisis in the pork industry in Canadian history.