A new plant being built in Michigan could help ease the gap between pork production and slaughter capacity in Ontario.
The Clemens Food Group is building the plant in Coldwater in Northern Michigan.
Spokesman Dan Groff told this week's Ontario Pork Industry Council Information Meeting in Stratford they hope to have it up and running in June of 2017.
The plant will have the capacity to process about 10 thousand hogs a day.
Groff is optimistic the plant's proximity to the Canadian border will make it mutually beneficial for his company and Ontario's pork producers.
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The Clemens Food Group's Business Development Director Dan Groff says the foundations for the new plant are being laid now.
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Groff says they're hoping to capitalize on the gap between pork production and slaughter capacity that exists in Ontario right now.
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