The Prairie Swine Centre Inc. of Saskatoon has been hired by the Ontario pork industry to establish a base of information on manure management issues.
The information will be used both for education and as a basis to develop guidelines for Ontario municipalities as they try to write bylaws governing new hog operations, says Mary Lou McLeod, of Ontario Pork.
The six-month contract for PSCI is “part of a process to demonstrate our commitment to the public that pork producers are implementing sound environmental practices,” said the pork producers’ marketing board, which last year sold four million hogs marketed by the province’s 6,800 pork producers.
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Slip of the tongue?
Manitoba Reform MP Jake Hoeppner was given a strange introduction recently when he appeared on an Alberta radio agriculture program.
According to a transcript of the Sept. 3 edition of Jim Fisher’s Agri-Talk, the host introduced Hoeppner with some faint praise after noting that he had taken the Portage-Marquette riding from then-agriculture minister Charlie Mayer in 1993.
“Since then, Jake has made his point,” said Fisher.
“He found out, he says, that it is really hard to change things in Parliament, especially when you have all the facts and figures.”
