It said the board of directors “endeavours to deliver a balanced portfolio of processing growth solutions, enabling the Ontario chicken industry to sustainably meet existing, new and emerging markets – while ensuring appropriate capacity for chicken sector growth.”
There has been such intense competition among processors for chicken supplies that the marketing board imposed rationing to end price wars.
And later it adopted policies to encourage production and processing to meet demand for specialty products that were of little or no interest ot the large-volume, high-speed processors.
The board said on its website that it is particularly interested in hearing from:
Association of Ontario Chicken Processors
All Individual Class A Chicken Processors
Individual Class B / Downstream Processors
Ontario Broiler Hatching Egg & Chick Commission
Individual Hatcheries
“All other Ontario chicken industry value chain stakeholders are welcome to participate. National participation is also welcomed.” the board said.
Through the recent CFO Strategic Planning process, the board of asked 1,300 family-run chicken farms for their views on relationships between farmers and processors and between farmers and hatcheries.
“Those expressed viewpoints will be included in this consultation process,” it said.
