Chicken farm appeals financial penalties
The Ontario Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs appeal Tribunal will hear the case in December
The Ontario Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs appeal Tribunal will hear the case in December
Farmer organization can represent them, says Farm Products Marketing Commission
Ontario’s chicken processors will only have a limited role when a hearing begins next week into a producer’s complaint that the Chicken Farmers of Ontario overstepped its regulating authority
A Stevensville farmer’s appeal of a Chicken Farmers of Ontario moratorium on interprovincial chicken marketing is raising questions about who has the final say about interprovincial trade
Chicken Farmers of Ontario is permitting small flock operators to market chickens.
They knew about the consultations. But a recent posting of the two proposed deadstock regulations on the provincial agricultural ministry’s website comes as a surprise to many in the farm community.
It's been more than two weeks but many growers remain disturbed about how the Ontario Wheat Producers' Marketing Board handled the release of member information to a third party organization. And some continue to push the matter with Ontario's Privacy Commissioner.
Federal testing for the presence of low pathogenic avian influenza in Canada's commercial poultry flock is underway. Farmers can expect to be on the financial hook for clean-up costs if the disease is found on their farm.
In order to protect the poultry industry the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs wants pigeons from the now- defunct Pigeon King International destroyed but ministry officials don’t know how many birds there are or where to find them.
UPDATED Thursday June 26, 2008, 11:57 a.m. (Links added)
Farmer poultry organizations support the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s surveillance program for low pathogenic avian influenza (AI) but they don’t think farmers get adequate compensation if flocks must be depopulated.