The Ontario Farm Products
Marketing Commission is amending regulations so contracted tonnage, not purchased
tonnage, is used to determine minimum tonnage processors will purchase.
The change applies to tomatoes
and carrots.
There have been a number of
changes favoured by processors, but resisted by some producers, that the
commission has imposed on the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers
marketing board in the last two years.
The changes came after
Ontario lost a number of processing companies, including Heinz in Leamington.
