Chicken Farmers Create More Flocking Options!
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, 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.
5 responses to “Chicken Farmers Create More Flocking Options!”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Before applauding this announcement, I would like to wait for the details… what is the fee for a production license? In the end, it is easy to strangulate this option by setting too high fees.
From the CFO website:
Applications will be open until Friday September 4th, 2015.
Premises will be inspected before applications are accepted and volumes
will be confirmed after the allocation setting on December 2nd, 2015.
[…] Sustain Ontario wrote to the Chicken Farmers of Ontario to share our congratulations regarding the recently announced suite of new programs and to address questions raised by our members to help clarify some aspects of the Family Food and […]
[…] Sustain Ontario wrote to the Chicken Farmers of Ontario to share our congratulations regarding the recently announced suite of new programs and to address questions raised by our members to help clarify some aspects of the Family Food and […]
[…] been almost a year since Sustain Ontario announced the Flocking Options Campaign’s success in securing more flocking options in Ontario’s chicken quota system. Sustain’s initiative arose […]