Feds extend sow cull compensation
Cull compensation now available for new time period in 2007
Photo: Curtiss Littlejohn
Update: Wed. March 25, 3:04 PM
Correction: Wed. March 25, 304 PM
Cull compensation now available for new time period in 2007
Photo: Curtiss Littlejohn
Update: Wed. March 25, 3:04 PM
Correction: Wed. March 25, 304 PM
The province is finalizing details on how to use $110,000 of provincial funds to process meat products from a sow cull and get it to Ontario food banks.
Sow numbers represented in Ontario applications to a national cull program exceed a cap for the program’s first stage. Nevertheless, a member of a committee organizing slaughter logistics within the province urges producers who might still be interested in the program to apply.
Pork producers taking part in the federal sow cull program are required to keep breeding stock out of a barn for three years. However, they can use the barn as a nursery or as a feeding facility during that time period, the Canadian Pork Council (CPC) has confirmed.
It will take about another week before the federally mandated culling of sows can actually begin in Ontario says a member of a provincial committee organizing the program’s logistics.