Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1998 woks b i r k s 0 i f i s k Low prices Hurt hog expansion expert Brandon by Helen fall Dong Brandon the despair on hog a fans around the Globe should not put a Damper on to expand Manitoba perk Indus Everts unless the world Falls the premise is still said Larry an agricultural economist with the George Morris Centre in there is Nota better place in the world to grow hogs than in Western especially in Western Mani if oversupply is a hog Farmers in other parts of the world should be the ones getting out of the Martin Brandon mayor Reg Atkinson was relieved to hear that message last week at an agribusiness conference in with Brandon poised to become the hog capital of Manitoba when Maple Leaf pork opens a giant Plant Here next the mayor had reason to be Manitoba hog Farmers Are losing million a week in a Market crash that has led to prices falling farther and faster than Many analysts thought while efficient producers Are expected to make a profit again by next Many hog Farmers Are demanding government Aid to get them through the Federal agriculture minister Lyle Vanclief will present Cabinet with an Aid package for ailing hog and Grain Farmers today in Manitoba agriculture marry said last week the province will he said the package should be Broad enough to include family Farmers who invest in Large hog but not other enthusiasm for hogs is waning Only because the Price Cycle has hit said its pretty hard to keep your Chin up right the Lon term Outlook is As Good As the minister we have v aggressively promoted the opportunities in the hog Industry and we will Farmers in Western Manitoba a fld ing hog barns to Supply Maple Leaf Are forging said Brian a Swine specialist with Manitoba Agri culture in in Southwest Stock farms taking advantage of the Price Down turn while stocking a new barn with Young the company will be ready to sell its first pigs in when prices Are expected to be up were just in a Lucky said Board chairman Wayne its brutal to say but the worse it is for everybody else probably the bet Ter it is for us in the Long Atkinson said the bottleneck driving prices Down is a shortage of packing rather than Low asian Brandon new Maple Leaf Plant can Only he while Farmers Are packing plants Are making Good Money buying pigs Over the Long said Canadian plants will have to increase prices to keep Farmers from sending their hogs to the research Sparks fears in White Shell Pinawa by aide Santon staff reporter Ottawa decision to resume research on the viability of underground storage of used nuclear fuel has White Shell residents a Little much of the research will be carried out at pinatas underground research Laboratory run by atomic Energy of Canada spokesmen for decl and Ottawa said although research on under ground storage will Likely nuclear waste will riot be stored but that offers Little Comfort to some concerned there int a Community in Cana and certainly no one who wants to see this said George a former Lac Dubonnet Reeve and a spokesman for concerned Citi Zens of last week Federal natural resources minister Ralph Goodale said research on the feasibility of underground storage of spent nuclear fuel would move into its second phase and he expected the work to be car ried out at aels underground research go Dales decision went against the recommendation of a scientific review panel that spent 10 years studying the theoretical concept of underground nuclear the panel said that although decl had demonstrated the concept was technically it concluded the pub Lic would never support storing nuclear waste in deep caverns in the Canadian Goodale said he expects the three Public utilities that produce nuclear waste Ontario Hydro que Bec and new Brunswick create and fund an Independent waste management Agency that would oper ate under the regulatory control of the atomic Energy Board of the study of underground storage began in the late when Ottawa and the three utilities contracted decl to develop the which included the construction of a series of underground vaults at the White Shell nuclear fuel has never been stored at the pm of Lac Dubonnet lab and it was never used in the studies that developed the theoretical provincial legislation and the lease agreement Between decl and Mani Toba prohibit the storage of nuclear material at the there Are lots of reasons we heres a reason you open your doors and invite your friends and relatives to stay with you during the 1999 pan am games and you could Register to win a trip for two to anywhere air Canada so give Uncle Bernie a with so much to do in who he May even stay an extra week he could introduce you to his stamp and right after you get off the phone with the be sure to Call for pan am games tickets at this is the largest sporting and cultural event Ever to hit the province and tickets Are sure to sell out Canada for travel and contest information Call Pas visit Winnipeg frames tickets 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