date:Jul 12, 2012
at Iowa State University, recently found that the Ontario Risk Management Programme would cut US pork production by more than 430,000 animals over five years, amounting to losses of more than $73m and costing nearly 600 pork industry jobs.
It also found that if the US were to introduce a system similar to the Quebec subsidy programme, it would increase pork production by 8.4% annually.
President of the US National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) RC Hunt said:Canada needs to end its federal and p