Future hog homes are being developed in two Saskatchewan locations this year by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool’s Heartland Livestock and community initiatives. Both projects are destined to be 2,400-sow, multi-site developments.
Salespersons are meeting and greeting farmers and rural residents in the communities near Biggar and Neilburg in western Saskatchewan, hoping to encourage local equity in the projects. Local investment goals for each project are in the $3.25 million range. Heartland has promised to match local funding with the balance of the $12.5 million cost borne by mortgage.
Towns east of Lake Diefenbaker and west of Highway 11, in the south-central part of the province, are creating a community share offering for a similar multi-barn facility in that area. Heartland has offered a letter of understanding to take part in the development which could have financing in place in 1998.
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“We are planning to be involved in 15 to 20 of these type of facilities in the next five years. … It won’t be enough on its own to attract new packers to the province but it will allow us to aid communities with a new industry and give the province a strong hold in the export market,” said John LaClare, chief operating officer of Heartland Pork.
