Manitoba Pork is adding sustainability to its standards for producers.
There are standards for animal care, community well-being, collaborative growth, economic resilience and environmental stewardship.
Farmers must be good stewards of the land, which means growing crops, raising livestock and moving what they’ve grown and raised to market sustainably, saide Manitoba Pork in a document announcing the new protocols.
The Sustainability Framework also focuses on the role Manitoba Pork plays in supporting hog farmers identify potential targets, explaining other outside impacts on producers and identifying areas where collaboration with partners is essential.
The program will also focus on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which are lower as a result increased efficiencies on hog farms that have included reduced water and energy use and lower carbon emissions, Manitoba Pork said.
