The Ontario board recommended a six per cent increase.
When the national agency aims for increases, Ontario is
allowed to take more of the increase than the national average. It has, however, been failing to fill all of the production the agency has granted it over the last several crop periods.
The Ontario marketing board, after
decades of lobbying, persuaded the national agency that the province has been
chronically short of chicken.
The Ontario board has used some of the increase to open up
new markets, both by allowing small-scale farm production without quota and by
allowing new processors into the market.
