by SUSAN MANN
Ontario chicken farmers, transporters and processors have until Sept. 30 to have an email address in place for business purposes as part of Chicken Farmers of Ontario’s continuing transition to a digital communications system.
But that’s not going to be a problem for most farmers. Already about 90 per cent of the more than 1,000 chicken farmers in the province are “communicating with us by email,” says Michael Edmonds, Chicken Farmers communications and government relations director.
“It’s a fairly sophisticated industry with lots of production forms and information passed back and forth” by digital means already, he explains. “I would say our farmers are for the most part very well prepared to make the transition.” Processors and transporters will also not have any problems complying with the regulation.
The need for all industry members to have an email address is part of Chicken Farmers electronic and transactions regulation. The regulation is part of the organization’s efforts to shift its communication and transaction processes to a digital operating system. The project is called CFO Connects.
Farmers without the ability to comply with the electronic aspects of the regulation must apply to the board for permission to use an alternative communication method, according to the notice on the Chicken Farmers website. The board makes a decision on all applications.
Edmonds says for those farmers who need additional help to make the transition, staff members are available to assist them.
For farmers who don’t comply with the regulation, Chicken Farmers has the option of imposing a series of penalties up to and including declining to allot quota to the farmer.
For transporters or processors who don’t adhere to the regulation, Chicken Farmers may suspend their license. BF
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CFO has been approved for up to $573,000 for this transition.
Why do Chicken Farmers of Ontario need to receive monies from growing forward 2, when they are always on the receiving end of consumer subsidies through tariffs?
Do taxpayers AND consumers need to subsidize CFO?
Raube Beuerman
I guess for the same reasons the Government handed out 2 million to the Pork Industry in this Province to help keep PED out and then another 2 million when they found they couldn't.
Taxpayers and consumers in this Province have to wonder about our Government handed out all those millions to an Industry that in turn has jacked up retail prices 10-15%
More to the point, pork farmers are not always on the receiving end of subsidies.....chicken farmers are.
The pork industry has not 'jacked' up prices at all, the price of pork is determined by the market.
In addition, since the pork industry is an exporter, it is a net benefit to the Canadian economy.
Raube Beuerman
More to the point, pork farmers are not always on the receiving end of subsidies.....chicken farmers are.
The pork industry has not 'jacked' up prices at all, the price of pork is determined by the market.
In addition, since the pork industry is an exporter, it is a net benefit to the Canadian economy.
Raube Beuerman
As a Taxpayer its very hard to tell the benefits that 4 million PED money was to the Pork Industry but as a consumer one could certainly see how price increases of up to 30% in some stretches of 2014 could be of great benefits to Pork producers.
Did they need both ?
$4 million of public money given to the pork industry pales in comparison to the approximately $35 billion worth of quota which, by definition, is the net present value of the extra income dairy and poultry farmers believe they can extort from consumers through supply management.
And, what's a one-time 30% increase in the price of pork in 2014 when compared to the almost 38% more Ontario consumers were paying for milk than US consumers, as revealed by the Dairy Farmers of Ontario in late 2010?
I mean, really, why does the anonymous rabble get all bent-out-of shape because hog farmers are finally, but obviously not forever, playing catch-up, but not get bent out of shape about dairy and poultry farmers having an absolute advantage all the time?
Ah, yes, on this site the words "anonymous" and "double-standard" mean exactly the same thing.
Stephen Thompson, Clinton ON
No one said the dollars that are put out from these programs is the right thing to do and that the right applications are selected .
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