The Turkey Farmers of Ontario marketing board has lost $1.7 million and 2.3 million kilograms of
production in an arbitration to settle a dispute that arose from production in fiscal
2013-14.
The national agency claimed Ontario exceeded its production
limits and announced a fine and reduced allocation.
The Ontario board appealed to the national council that
supervises supply-management agencies, but withdrew that appeal when both
agreed to arbitration.
Ontario argued that the penalty should have been only
$154,695 and the production cut only 703,150 kilograms.
The Ontario board is now talking to the national agency
about how the penalties will be applied.
