future of our pork industry

Now after the rulling, where do WE go from here?

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Permalink Reply by pigsrgr8 on February 22, 2010 at 4:24am

Does this ruling change anything?
We still need profitability...

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Permalink Reply by rein minnema on February 23, 2010 at 1:34am

Will this change anything?
It be up to the producers, Iet's look at it the positive way.
Profitability is not just Ont. Pork or the packers. We have to deal with all kinds of marketing situations infuenced by provincial and US and world trade policies.
On top of that there are the health issues and regulation in the use of medicine.
The good time was when we had acces to chloraphenicol this is some twenty years ago I can't even spell it any more

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Permalink Reply by Joe Dales on March 1, 2010 at 8:07am

Did you guys see the AgVisionTV show interviewing a few Canadian pork industry leaders....
What Ontario issues need to be addressed in addition to the national issues?

Thanks,

Joe

Here is the link to the Pork Show.

http://agvisiontv.farms.com/default.aspx?vid=vid_1292009150429714

You can also watch the videos on http://www.agvisiontv.com

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