News - Hog Moratorium

The chair of Manitoba Pork is calling on the province’s business community to apply pressure on their local MLAs to rethink provincial government policies that have led to a dramatic reduction in the volumes of hogs produced for processing.

The executive Vice President of Hylife Foods warns the ability of his company’s recently upgraded Neepawa pork processing plant to access adequate hog supplies is being threatened by the Manitoba government’s expansion of its moratorium on new hog barn construction.

A Starbuck area hog producer is calling on the Manitoba government to re-evaluate legislation that bans the construction of new or the expansion of existing hog operations in much of the province.