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Ottawa to pay $50-million for swine cull

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The Canadian Press

April 14, 2008 at 1:49 PM EDT

EDMONTON — The federal government will pay Canada's struggling pork producers $50-million to kill off 150,000 pigs by the fall — 10 per cent of the industry's breeding herd.

The animals are to be destroyed at slaughter plants and on pig farms in what experts are calling an unprecedented cull.

The Canadian Pork Council says the vast majority of the meat will be used for pet food or disposed of, although a small percentage will go to food banks.

Producers who accept federal compensation must agree to cull all of the pigs in a breeding barn and not restock for three years.

Pork Council spokesman Martin Rice says the industry has been hit hard by low prices, rising feed costs, the high value of the Canadian dollar and new country-of-origin labelling rules for meat products that are to go into effect in the United States this year.

There are about 10,000 pork producers in Canada — mainly in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

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