DuBreton pork-processing company has persuaded the Quebec Superior Court to order a producer referendum on the province’s pork marketing board’s policy of establishing one price for all market hogs.
DuBreton deals in specialty pork such as organic standards of hog production. That makes production costs higher and DuBreton argues that those producers deserve higher prices for their market hogs.
While it’s an issue for Quebec producers to decide by a vote, it has nation-wide implications for pork marketing boards in the other provinces.
