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Karl Kynoch, chairman of Manitoba Pork Council, said he had met four times with a group interested in building a plant in Manitoba and was about to arrange a meeting with government officials when the Clean Environment Commission report on the hog industry was released and the province imposed a moratorium on March 3.
"It would be the worst of all worlds," said Michael Teillet, manager of sustainable development programs for the council. "The province will lose the income, it will lose regulatory control and those producers would still be operating within the Lake Winnipeg water basin."Hog industry advocates, including the dean of the faculty of agriculture at the University of Manitoba, argue that since hog manure is used as fertilizer on only about 1.5 per cent of the agricultural acreage in Manitoba, that it is only responsible for that much of the nutrient-loading problem in Lake Winnipeg.See the full content of this document
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Hog Barn to Force Producer Exodus
By Martin Cash
Negotiations with a group of investors interested in building another pork processing plant in Manitoba ended abruptly this month when the prov...See the full content of this document
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