Chicken Farmers Create More Flocking Options!

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Author: Carolyn

Posted: July 28, 2015

Categories: GoodFoodBites / News from Sustain Ontario / The Meat Press

Sustain Ontario is thrilled to announce that after over two years of campaigning for more Flocking Options in Ontario’s chicken quota system, the Chicken Farmers of Ontario have announced a new Artisanal Chicken program.  On the heels of our recent Market Interventions talk at the Evergreen Brickworks and leading up to this year’s Bring Food Home conference, the timing couldn’t be better!

Henry Bakker, Field Sparrow Farms, speaking at the Market Intervention Talk at Evergreen Brick Works.

Henry Bakker, Field Sparrow Farms, speaks at our Market Intervention Talk.

We would like to congratulate Team Ontario (the Chicken Farmers of Ontario, the Association of Ontario Chicken Processors and the Farm Products Marketing Commission) for taking into careful consideration the feedback from a variety of stakeholders in the food system earlier this year during their consultations on Allocating New Growth.  We look forward to sharing more details on this new program with our members soon.

You can read a history of work done through the Flocking Options and We Want Northern Chickens campaigns on our Sustain Ontario page or by viewing the Flocking Options Facebook page.