Swine Innovation Pork Supports Creation of Canadian Pork Promotion and Research Agency

Mar 07, 2016

In mid-March Swine Innovation Pork submitted a brief to the Farm Products Council of Canada as part of public hearings into the proposed creation of a Canadian Pork Promotion and Research Agency. Swine Innovation Pork Chair Stewart Cressman told Farmscape.ca during his radio interview that a national levy on pork would put the Canadian industry on an equal footing with that of the U.S.

“I think the main role that it would play in the pork industry would be to provide the oversight, to provide the tools for collecting and then the exact use of the funds would flow into Canadian Pork International for domestic and foreign promotion, and into Swine Innovation for research and development,” Cressman said. “We are very supportive of this.”

The new agency would administer the collection and distribution of a national levy collected on the sale of pork, including pork imported from other countries, primarily the United States.

“We look at it as an even or level playing field with producers in this country that are contributing dollars to research and development and to support Swine Innovation Pork,” Cressman added. “This is a way of ensuring that pork that is flowing into the country from outside countries and primarily the U.S. would pay in an equal fashio

Source: MeatBuseness

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