Producers, packers and retailers are starting to respond to consumer demands for specialty pork. But the industry is still far from the potential 15 to 20 per cent of provincial pork production that industry experts believe could go to niche markets
by DON STONEMAN & MARY BAXTER
For old-order Amish and Mennonite farmers in western Ontario’s hog belt who still raise pigs like they did 50 years ago, there is a modern-day payoff.