Sunrise Foods is going to build a $100-million poultry processing plant at Woodstock Ont., the mayor announced.
Sunrise Foods was founded by organic farmers based in Saskatchewan, Canada.
As the organic industry has evolved, it has grown into the largest organic agri-trading company in the world, Sunrise says on its website.
It has facilities in Ontario in Milton and Waterloo.
The announcement said nothing about the Ontario Chicken Farmers marketing board which regulates how many chickens each processing company can buy from farmers,
That plant supply quota system was established as part of a deal to end competitive purchasing as premium prices and to stop companies from buying chickens from Quebec producers and Quebec procesdsrs from buying from Ontario farmers.
