“If these plants don’t run at full capacity, then they become uncompetitive with the U.S. plants and they can’t afford to pay the producers as much for the hogs, so it creates a real challenge.”
That’s good news in Brandon, where the pork industry provides thousands of direct and indirect jobs. “Brandon has the biggest and newest and most sophisticated processing plant in Canada. The Brandon plant is the flagship plant for Maple Leaf to get their product to supply all their further processing plants,” Kynoch says. “They’ve really focused on making Manitoba their spot.” However, increased export options won’t necessarily top up local piggy banks if production continues to be hampered by provincial regulations calling for new hog barns to have zero impact on the environment. “The European trade agreement won’t >>
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